After a short trip to say good bye to his family, relatives and friends, Fr. Perboyre got together the necessary supplies and on March 21, 1835 he and two other Vincentian priests and 5 or 6 other missionaries, left the port of Havre on the French ship "Edmund". There was a short stop at the island of Madeira off North Africa and then the long trip around the Cape of Good Hope. Sailing nor and east to the island of Java they landed at Batavia ( mode Jakarta ). Here they changed t a British ship which went to-Surabaya, Java, back again to Batavia and finally on to Macao
