Some benevolent work wi day among the refugees ow Gate, From funds genera nts from. cloth from the Temperance Hall by Mr, Grimmer nud others, Dra, Macgowan and Ssu-yoong were in attendance duri the day, doi tress." More than eighty pa treated at the dispensary, and some too sick to leave their huts were visited there, There are a number of cases of smallpox, though bad ones an yot. The head men wore Urged to have the children for vaccination revent its spread, native authorities have done much to provide for the moat press: ing necessities. What they actually provide, isn shelter from the weather, and 80 cosh for the adults and 16 for exch child, per diem; and it costs 6 cash for each bowl of thin rice gruel, The people Tie upon straw. There seemed Li bedding 1d not a chai or other article of furniture, such circumstances, an old chair, stool, box, or pail, or in fact anything, would be acceptable, If thine who nent the second= hand clothing could hav how fur it wont to make the recipients comfortable, they would have felt pleased. living from fifteen to twenty-fiv (Four or five families together), in the moat orderly marine: ill return to their hhomesearly int will carry with th of the foreigners who ha ness, Those in the encampment seem to be country people, not hale of their head men being able to read of write. They are remarkably free from the vice of opium-smoking, there appearing no evidences of it whatever; and it is said, they. are not allowed to beg. We hai doubt the Rev. Mr, Farnham, who lives near where they are encamped, would give to the moat needy suything foreigners may wish to bestow upon them,
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