[2] Their vessel visited the port of Valparaíso at the end of December, where they waited for 63 days for another ship to continue ferrying them.

The priests were greeted by fellow Catholic Louis Désiré Maigret, who informed them that they had to wait several days for the next ship to visit Honolulu, the Hudson's Bay Company barge Cowlitz.

[6] Waiting for them was their superior, Vicar general François Blanchet, who, after having the men join him in performing religious services, gave them their appointments.

"[7] Despite this a former slave freed by Modeste Demers gave valuable service as a translator, and many Cowlitzes requested baptisms when near death.

[7] Bolduc was eager to explore the northern Puget Sound, along with Vancouver Island, to locate the site of a permanent missionary station.

Bolduc estimated that a gathering of 1,200 Klallams, Cowichans and Songhees was convened on the 19th, a Sunday, to hear his sermon.

Manned by a Cowichan noble and ten of his servants, Bolduc's rented canoe sailed south on 24 March and reached the island the next day.

Netlam had sailed north to Vancouver prior to Bolduc's arrival, expecting to accompany the priest to his village.

He left the Mission in October 1844 for a school in the Willamette Valley for primarily the children of American and French-Canadian farmers, where he remained throughout 1845.