"Three other Tittle—Chinese children, two of them very small, who were deserted by their father his flight, had followed During this' time we—fought mosquitoes and wondered where we would go from there and how we would get to Hiohow. We heard a hail which sounded' friendly and and proved to be one of the preachers from a village near by.
was getting Tight so T went back to the boat which was well gone over. The station treasurer's booke and a few pieces of clothing stained with red dye which had spilled out were all that was left. We relurned to the boat. The boatmen also od ani continued our journey reached the auto road re we waited hatless, shoeless, fooiless, sleepless, matted with mud, for a car which took us to Hoihow in the early afternoon, We are thunkfal to have escaped a worse Zale but are still wondering fi the frame of mind of the father of the {wo children who followed tts into the vice fields. When took them tuck to the boat where ite Joined them we heard merely a scolding for our thanks—not, scolding us, but the children for follows, ing after the foreign devils."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.