Mrs. Ogden who left for Bata August 2 and arrived in Tachienlu terday "left "San Francisco
October 2; quite" record Journey She had planned to. spend. a: mont ose here resting and. gelling Tead) for the tong journey over the passer, fit as the animals turned up she got her belongings, together and started fut on the long trail to Batang. Mrs. Osden was a member of the Forest Christian Mission which commenced Work in Batang. Eastern Tibet, 19 Toon, When the work closed down, {oar she retired to Los Angeles, bul her heart has ever een tu the Tand of ber adoption, Kham, She, now ttensy not under any" Bowrd, but a private worker, supported by anu: tar of friends in Colton. "She his Siresdy\" spent. some. 20.~years_ 8 the border so knows something o€ hardships and dangers and Tonelinese iter the terrible experiences endutcath Batang. in. 1908, we marvel for courage. in again facing the Dos Sites of war in that distant powt, "War Js'a hardy perennial in Eastern vet and. those" who. desir {o'do mission workin. Kham must rer remember this fact. "That oun {Ey west of Tachlen is a heterogen:
mass of warring and conducting tribes bent on mutual destruction and elimination.
Batang, where Mrs. Ogden hopes to live entirely alone, is surrounded by some of the wildest communities im Eastern Tibet. On the north lie the mail robbing Lengkashi; on the west live the caravan robbing Sangen; fon the south east dwell the nomad Fobbing Shangtrin; and on the east roam the wild nomadic Washu tribe.
dificult getting into Batang and it is dangerous getting out. Yet nothing daunts this brave little lady. She believes she has a work to a2 and until it is done California with all is peace and beauty has attraction for her. Her ambition to train the girls in Batang to becwae good women, good mothers, and good Before leaving Tachienlu Mrs. Ogden heard from Mr. Duncan of the Dolan Expedition, now at Litang, that the Shangirin warriors were on the war path. For a few hours only was she undetermined what to do but after a night's rest she felt it was her duty to go on. And so she started yesterday with ten pack and two Fiding animals and four Tibetans in her caravan on a journey in to Cen tral Asia that will occupy the best part of one month's hard and dim cult fand dangerous travelling. We saw, her outside the south gate and then waved good-bye to the lonely little Agure sitting securely on her Tibetaa pony. We hope when great missionary adventures are recorded that this Jong and perilous journey will find} a place.
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