At this he laboured in vacation time for at least ten years.
He laboured assiduously amongst them for fifteen months, and at the end of 1543 returned to Goa.
He also laboured to improve his English style by translation, particularly from the French.
At the end of 1909 there were in connexion with the " National Council of Adult-School Associations " 1818 " schools " for men with laboured to secure the religious teaching of slaves.
The first to enter the field were the Jesuits and Dominicans, who laboured on the south-east coast and among the subjects of the monomotapa (see Portuguese East Africa).