Leaving the little hsien city of Fukang—The Mound of Peace—we realised with delight that only one more night in an inn lay between us and the Mission Compound in Urumchi, where we should find a bed, sheets, bathing facilities in the place of the small tin basin which we carried, and the possibilities of getting our clothes washed.

The position of Swatow at a point opposite the Bashee Channel renders it pecularly exposed to typhoons, the principal range of which is in this narrow seaway.

Originally each school was bound only by self-made rules.

Two decades have passed since those words, rebuking wrong in high places, were uttered, and the speaker has since passed over to the silent majority.