Accompanying Capt. Brace on the present expedition are Dr. Jolliffe, Dr. Sparling, Dr. Agnew and Billy Joldiffe is literary editor in connection with the Canadian Mission in West China and came out to the east from Toronto in 1908. He is a Chinese scholar of considerable ability, controlling an enormous output of Chinese literature from the Canadian Press year by year. In recent years this energetic literary editor has brought out tracts dealing with hygiene, farming, education and kindred. sub-Jeets, written in simple style and making a wide appeal to people living in the country districts. An edition of each tract runs into 100,000 copies and these are put into careful circulation, Dr. Jolliffe is also responsible for' translating the Sunday. School lessons in West China and these also have a wide circulation throughout the province. "Sometime ago the doctor wrote a' most interesting little book depicting 40 years of missionary history carried on by the Canadian Mission in West China. The little book created a favourable impression and was greatly appre cited by all who have had a share in the building up of the Canadian Institutions in West China. Dr. Jolliffe received his doctor's degree from his own university in Toronto.
Dr. Sparling, another member of the expedition, came to China in 1907, and is a {eacher of religion and philosophy in the West China Union University, "He is very much interested in native religion and the present expedition provided him with all the necessary opportunities to study Lamaism at frst hand. The simple nomadic prayer "Om mani pad me hum" and the different objects of Tibetan worship, including the "Wheel of Life" and the "Way to Nirvana," were subjects which greatly fascinated this teacher of religion. Unfortunately the different members of the ex-rendition wace pressed for time—the Journey to and from Chengtu eating up 24 days—and so were only able to make the briefest study of border lore.
100 Tibetan Jaws Dr. Agnew, a teacher of dentistry' In the university, worked like a tro-Jon, He examined the teeth in 100 Jaws, an accomplishment bringing Great credit to this energetic young doctor, The Tibetan is extremely superstitious and suspicious and. yet this young dentist worked his way Into 100 Tibetan mouths. How he did it and why, will appear in due. course when the HRS. Journal is published. With the help of two local Tibelans the doctor performed his examinations wherever he found a willing and patient Tibetan, Those of who have lived here for many marvelled at his audacity and per rance, Somtimes he had a Stroke of good luck when he held up the traffic with his public street clinic, The doctor's Tibetan helper captures smelly nomad: "Open your mouth" demands the helper, and into plunges the scientist with two strange ooking instruments. Upper and lower are carefully examined, the results written down, and the woolly passes on wondering If this exami Mien has brought him any nearer Dr. Agnew is studying teeth in their relation jo food and some day we shall know if the teeth of a man who feats rice are better preservd than the man. who consumes barley fou: fand It may be we shall discover what choice "bits Pithecanthropus Neanderthal preferred when the victim from the other tribe was carried rhe ranted atmosphere at 14,000 feet gave young Jolliffe an acceleration which made him rather volatile, and Inclined him somewhat to. the discovery and study of prehistoric implements. Billy is quite young, being just sixteen, yet he felt he had to make some contribution 0 the expedition. This was not easy, but he was in good company, so started the precarious task of collecting, what he termed, prehistoric implements. the Like all beginners he was inclined to ridicule this important branch of science and would on occasions produce what he described as a prehistorfe tooth brush. Again he would produce two stone implements, one of which he said was used by little Susie and the other by little William, and again he professed to know at a fiance the nature of the stone implement he was handling. Young Jolliffe has a long way to go, and unless he is very careful, he may yet find himself a professor of stone Implements.
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