j ’jg DETAILS RESPECTING COCHIN CfINA, # 
another, the RevdL M. Hainques: lastly in 1671 Mgr Be La Mothc 
Lambert went himself to exercise his zeal in his Mission. 
The Revd. M. Beydier is the first French Missionary who reached 
Tong King in 1666. Since that time down to our days, there have 
been in Cochin China 16 Bishops and SO French Missionaries, and 
in Tong King 17 Bishops and 47 French Missionaries, all mem¬ 
bers of the Society called u Les Missions Etrangeres.’ 7 Their unin¬ 
terrupted labours have raised these Missions to the flourishing statxs 
an which they arc today. 
