The military still guard or occupy. mission property, but there was nothing offensive in their manner, when a visit was made to view the desolations wrought during the last year. Some missionaries have already resumed work, and are living the simple life, while seckings to bring order out of the chaos, There are still missionaries who now how to suffer need and endure hardness, For the moment, at Toast, there wag no sign of antagonism or bitter ness, and the writer came and went freely as in normal times, On two or three days there was more than a hint that spring is here, and leaves are just ready to burst into green, The hills. sur rounding' the port looked beautiful. But winter is not yet over and gone, Snow came in earnest on the Inst night of my sojourn, and Chinkiang Tay wrapped in a glistening mantle of snow fully one and a half inches deep and still falling when the train steamed out on my return journey. All the unsightliness of dire poverty 80 evident in some parts of the port, were hidden from. view, but the squalor was there none the less and the hardships of the very poor must indeed be very great, the man falls from his low estate and becomes a demon. This in Tibet is the simple history of the Fal The demon kingdom is presided over by the lord of the demons. In the cast there is the white demon; every-that is beautiful in the world isthe work of this demon. The golden or yellow demon, who resides in the-cold north, is responsible for the ups and downs in the official world; the road to fame and glory fs in the hands of this arbitrary} being. The red demon dwells in th west, and his particular function in life seems to be to create trouble and disturbance; among the sons of men, wherever there is a lack of harmony and a desire to pull each other's "hai red fellow holds himself responsible. In the sunny, balmy south lives the black demon, who justifies his existence by bring ing sickness and disease upon the sons of men, but why he does so and continues to do so is not easily discovered. These four demons, the white, the yellow, the red, and the black, exist, according' to Lamaism, to affect the wicked, guide the up-ight, bless the religious, haunt the dissolute, and accomplish the designs of the' gods. Everything that sprouts above the earth is regarded by the lamas as the work of the 'In.'
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