the Evil In devising remedies for the bandit scourge a missionary will naturally declare that the only real cure is the spread of Christi-unity with its attendant quickening of the public conscience _towards the affairs of the state, But it must be sadly admitted thas the lessons of history show that for such a transformation of such a huge population centuries must be allowed and we are forced to consider what might be of aid to-day.
Five or six years ago a missionary who had lived' a_ score of years in this very district gave as his belief that the free importation of arms and ammunition was the only immediate remedy. With that view I could not at the time agree but the intervening years have brought me to it. As it is now the weapons are practically in the hands of the robbers. There are many villages and families that are ready for attack
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