Mz, and Mrs. Fiddler have been of the C.LM. Station at ninghsia, and in Kansu for the past 10 years, 10 of which have elapsed since their last furlough. They left the station on Juno 2 to travel by native boat down the Yellow River to Paotow, which is a railway terminus for trains from Tientsin, Or-dirianly this trip would require from 10 to 15 days. The present one took 43, and after that, vicissitudes encountered in railway travel brought, the total up to 65 day When the missionaries left their station for furlough a lady mission-remained behind, refusing ye, Persuasion had been used with her, but this indomitable work, er declared that she was in no need of a furlough and that she would remain, As a compromise she took a month's leave and went into Mongolia, to Wangychfn, 120 miles north of Ninghsia, where with a native evangelist she proposed to have holiday teaching in new fields. Her return to the Kansu station was interfered with, however, when a Mongolian rebellion took place, following the high-handed robbery of the Mongolian prince of the place of some $600,000 or $700,000, the entire sum in hig treasury, by a Chinese general nominally in charge of the district. The flare-up, which came after, detained the missionary lady,: who returned just in time to wish her departing ce-workers Godspeed. They left their peaceful station and started out to face the uncertain jour-at the best of times.
The Commissariat Shallow water, high winds and robbers accounted for the principal [delays en route, Food had been taken by the missionaries to last only 20-days;"this gave out midway during the trip and the yellow rice of the boatmen became the foreigners? fare. Occasionally parties would go ashore to negotiate for one excursion taking Mr. to buy al back, darkness having fallen, he and tae accompanying Chinese boatmen trasted to the stars to guide then through the inky blackness to their boats." The missionary and his wife, through the precarious fare obtainable, both got dysentery and for a week lay on the salt cargo of the boat very ill, with the temperature mounting st to 103 degrees and beyond. These were the nor ills of the journey. Major ones, however, were not long in putting' in an appearance.
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