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Tali is situated on the undulating ground that shelves gently from the base of snow-clad mountains down to the lake. The lower slopes of the mountain, above the town, are covered with myriads of grave-mounds, which in the distance are scarcely distinguishable from the granite blocks around them.

For the first eleven years the mission laboured here without any success whatever; but now a happier time seems coming, and no less than three converts have been baptised in the last two years. There are now three missionaries in Tali there are usually four; they are universally respected by the Chinese; they have made their little mission home one of the most charming in China. Mr.

The effect was very gratifying to all but the patient. Small-pox, or, as the Chinese respectfully term it, "Heavenly Flowers," is a terrible scourge in Western China. It is estimated that two thousand deaths there is a charming vagueness about all Chinese figures from this disease alone occur in the course of a year in the valley of Tali.

Upon a pretty wooded hill near the centre of the city is the Confucian Temple, and on the lower slope of the hill, in an admirable position, are the quarters of the China Inland Mission, conducted by Mr. and Mrs. X., assisted by Mr. Graham, who at the time of my visit was absent in Tali, and by two exceedingly nice young girls, one of whom comes from Melbourne.

As there is a telegraph line between Yunnan and Tali, the money was forwarded by telegraph and awaited my arrival in Tali. There are no less than four native post-offices between Chungking and Suifu. All the post-offices transmit parcels, as well as letters and bullion, at very moderate charges. Tak-wan-hsien is a town of some importance, and was formerly the seat of the French missionary bishop.

I will put down ten philippi. This will be worth winning or losing." "As you say," gleefully chuckled Phaon, tossing the gold on the table. "Yes, more wine, I say too. One always enjoys play when his temples are all athrob." Agias quietly reached over, took up his opponent's dice box, and rattled it, and appeared inspecting and fingering the tali.

I was then glad that I had not paid him the retaining fee he had asked in Chungking to take me to Tali. I called upon the famous Catholic missionaries, the Provicaire Moutot and Père Béraud, saw the more important sights and visited some newly-arrived missionaries of the American Board of Missions. Four of the Americans were living together.

This were a marriage on constraint; out of which a thousand INCONVENIENTIAE might spring!" Hear Linsenbarth, in the piebald dialect, with the sound heart, and preference of starvation itself to some other things! "And I had LEGITIMAM CAUSAM to refuse the vocation CUM TALI CONDITIONE. "However, it was very ill taken of me.

The city magistrate has himself publicly praised the benevolence of this missionary, and said, "there is no man in Tali like Mr. Smith would that there were others!" He is a Christian in word and deed, brave and simple, unaffected and sympathetic the type of missionary needed in China an honour to his mission.

All this time Smith and the King stood in the middest guarded, as before is said, and after three dances they all departed. Smith they conducted to a long house, where thirtie or fortie talI fellowes did guard him, and ere long more bread and venison were brought him then would have served twentie men.