The Archive · 1900

A Great Change

had come over the people and the old rowdy clement seemed to have all but disappeared. Last year a foreign house was built by the London Mission and native premises were bought and adapted for temporary use as a hospital, school, chapel, etc. The Rev. Henry Robertson and Dr. Edward Wills have lived there ever since in peace and quietness, the people have been friendly, and hospital and school work has been carried on vigorously. Until the morning of the Lith nob a sign was given of On that day an immense crowd gathered to witness the festival of the God of Medicine, drawn thither, it is now known, bya very widely distributed notice that special attractions would be provided including ' foreign fireworks."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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