Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1852

pg 164                         5.  F. Baroux Starts for Bengal

                  In the beginning of September of this same year an order came 
             to have F. Baroux, pastor of Pokagan, with a Brother and a Sister 
             that could speak English, get ready immediately the colony of 
             fifteen religious who were soon to start for Calcutta in Bengal, 
             where the Propaganda had just assigned a mission to the 
             Association.
                  In a week all the preparations for departure had been made.  
             Bro. Benoit and Sr. Victor were the two on whom the choice fell to 
             accompany the dearly beloved Father Missioner.
                  The immediate result of this departure was the abandonment 
             for the time of the mission amongst the savages of Pokagan, which 
             was taken up again, however, at the end of a month, by Mr. l'Abbe 
             Fourmond, a novice.
                  Some weeks after the departure of this gentleman for Pokagan 
             there seemed to be reason to doubt his loyalty towards N.D. du 
             Lac.  In fact, a month had not yet passed before he left the 
             Society and was admitted as one of his priests by the Bishop of 
             Detroit, with charge of the Indians of Pokagan and Silvan Creek, 
             and of the mission of St. Joseph.  The manner of this little