Now I expect you will get a sur-when. I tell you where I am going now. Well, the day after tomorrow, I am leaving here to cro! the Taku Mahan to Chaglik, Churshana, Kana, Khotan, Yarkand, Kashgar, and back via Aksu Kuchal, Korla, Tihwa. This is no new plan of mine, but I had-not intended going till 1931. "Man proposes, Dut God disposes." Oft-when Sining I used to look: away west from the housetop and "wonder I ever would see these parts; fo direct west from Sining to Kashgar there was no messenger of the Gospel.. Tihwa is N.W.
When T came to Tihwa I thought it would be my last long journey,
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