Our slumbers were disturbed only a few times, and then by the howling of wild animals in the jungle about us.

Among the men were a schoolmaster and a preacher, also a carpenter and a shoemaker. They told us they were very poor, and we promised to send every man a coat. This was done a few weeks later; and after that, we sent them two lots of secondhand clothes, which they seemed to appreciate.

Before we said good-by, they wanted us to accept a live chicken; but we thanked them and gave it back. They told us they were greatly bothered by the invasions of wild animals, which destroyed their stock and watchdogs. They go a distance of twelve miles for the mail and provisions; and should they need a doctor, they must go twenty miles.

When the time came for us to leave the place, we mounted our camels and set forth, in the same fashion that Abraham followed thousands of years ago. Some of the friends accompanied us a distance out of town; and before the final "salaams" were said, the missionary shot a deer, which would furnish fresh meat for them for several days.

The path was the same as that by which we came, but we saw many new sights and met new faces. It took seven days to make the trip of one hundred and twenty-five miles, and two weeks of rest to regain our normal condition physically; but we had gathered practical information that we could have obtained in on other way. Between our mission home and Salvationtown, save Mr. Tazaram, we did not see one single mark of civilization or Christianity. We passed hundreds of villages that had never heard of Christ, and thousands of men and women who will have died before the gospel can come to them. Cholera, plague, smallpox, and famine are sweeping them off the earth faster than all the missionaries can preach. Who is responsible? "The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few."

Work at Kopergaon

OR several years, native preachers had labored for the Master at Kopergaon, a typical Hindu village not far from the city of Ahmednaggar, and lying in a fertile valley covered with fruit orchards and well cultivated fields of cotton, corn, wheat, and pulse.

Kopergaon was evidently built by the Marathas, who, for protection from their Mohammedan foes, built high walls around their towns and villages. Some of these walls are composed of huge blocks of cut stone, placed side by side without cement or mortar, and many of them are from twenty to forty feet high, with several circular towers at the corners and along the sides. These towers are reached by long flights of stone steps on the inside of the wall, and in olden times were used by the military and police forces. In some of these walls, which are from twenty to fifty feet thick, are rooms for ammunition and barracks. The tops of the walls are made flat, and topped with a sort (255)

of crown work full of holes, through which guns may be aimed at an enemy.

Each of these walled towns is entered by two enormous gateways directly opposite each other. The gates are made of heavy planks and crudely wrought iron, and the strength of several able-bodied men is required to open and close their heavy leaves. They are bolted at night on the inside by long beams, held in iron sockets. The wall above the gates is finished as an arch.

Just inside the gates, and on either side, are open rooms about three feet from the road, the floors of which are made of large, flat rocks. In these rooms are always found the elders of the town, accompanied by inspectors and watchmen, so that no one may come in or go out unobserved. Here, too, all the gossip of the day is carried on.

In form, the town of Kopergaon is square, with one long main street perhaps twenty feet wide running through the center. All its streets are swept every day by hand; so, on the whole, it presents rather a neat appearance. The town is divided into sections, the more influential and higher castes living in well built houses near the front gate, and the artisans and lower classes occupying less