sentences:  For seven years they had not the consolation of registering one soul for the Catholic Church, yet the intrepid and courageous Allard wanted to push further his expeditions against paganism.He founded a new mission exclusively for the natives, to whom the missionaries wished to devote themselves altogether, and called that new mission St. Michael.Here they were destined to battle against many obstacles, privation of the necessaries of life, difficulty of communication and poverty, which drove the missionaries to the verge of starvation.