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.
Early in the 17th century trading posts and mission centres were established on the coast of Maine, and during the same century French priests laboured zealously in northern New York, along the entire coast of the Mississippi from Wisconsin to Louisiana, and around the Great Lakes.