 Father Tosi expressed concerns about this proposal, noting that Fuller had displayed signs of emotional instability.Seghers acknowledged the concern, and how the lateness of the season would likely impact his work.He gave as his reasons for going ahead anyway as his wish to fulfill a promise made to the people of Nulato to return eight years earlier, and that there were stories that an Anglican priest, who was allegedly at St. Michael, Alaska, might arrive there and establish himself before Seghers.