sentences:  Whether or not Dr. de Faria went to Portugal in 1903 is not known, but he is listed as president of the articles of association of the Liberdade Publishing Company, Ltd. filed in October, 1903, in Honolulu.Certainly, he had returned to Honolulu and was in practice by 1904 when he became a member of the Hawaiian Territorial Medical Society.During his years in Honolulu he was the originator and chief promoter of "A Pátria", a Portuguese society whose objects were financial benefit, social intercourse, and the education of its members.