He writes letters to his family and friends back in France. Latour obtains his papers at Durango and settles into his position as bishop in Santa Fe. On their way to meet this bishop, Latour and Vaillant come across a secluded Mexican settlement called Agua Secreta and spend the night there, performing sacraments for the villagers. Father Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant, his boyhood friend and fellow priest, eventually arrive at Santa Fe, but the people there tell him that they have no news of his coming and consider themselves to be under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Durango. Along the way, he ran into two great misfortunes when his steamer sank at Galveston and he injured his leg jumping out of a wagon on his way to San Antonio. Jean Marie Latour-Vicar Apostolic of New Mexico and Bishop of Agathonica, whom we first meet traveling on horse and struggling with thirst in the New Mexico desert-has traveled down the Mississippi from Cincinnati to New Orleans, from New Orleans to Galveston, across Texas to San Antonio, and then into New Mexico towards Santa Fe.
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