the horses, which in winter have to be fed with goats' flesh, tex, butter and cheese, suffered ea from hunger they were always tumbling down, until Miss Taylor joined herself on to ® yak caravan, and 200 yuhs made a way for them through 20 feet ut snow, It was on the 22ud of January Miss Taylor left the Lhassx district of Tibet, and on the 12th of April she reached Tachienlu after hardships such as it seems hardly credible s woman should have surmounted. In Tibet she was always call Annia, the name for their women religion teachers, and tolockmorelike one lad all her hair cut off. Tt seems in Tibet these are ti girls, who are mothers of children by the various visitors at their fathers' houses,—theso children belong to the girls' fathers, and are found very useful. These are the wives of often more than one husband, generally two brothers having the same wife, and so on, and these are the Aunias. 'There i 'Tibet as in China, ani lore men becriming Lamas than women, Annias, what we call the surplus women, become girl-mothers living on in their fathers' houses, Truth aeenis t" be a virtue unknown among the Tibetans, But whether because of their vices or their virtues Miss Taylor has returned with her heart as much sot as ever upon carrying the Gospel of Glad Tidings to this peuple who, if they do wrong, yet atoll events, as she says, do not concesl it. They do it openly.
The China Inland cannot have many more such Missionaries. but that it has one such ica thing to thank God for. And whater Miss Annie Taylor wants for Tibet, whether men or money, we feel sure that the woman who has succeeded in making this journey will obtain, Chungking, 6th May.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.