Cantonese peddlers returning to the coast probably carried the germs with them.
The China Inland Mission in Tali was the last of the mission stations which I was to see on my journey.

This is the furthest inland of the stations of the Inland Mission in China.

It was opened in 1881 by Mr.
George W.Clarke, the most widely-travelled, with the single exception of the late Dr.Cameron, of all the pioneer missionaries of this brave society; I think Mr.Clarke told me that he has been in fourteen out of the eighteen provinces.

His work here was not encouraging; he was treated with kindness by the Chinese, but they refused to accept the truth when he placed it before them.
"For the Bible and the Light of Truth," says Miss Guinness, in her charming but hysterical "Letters from the Far East"-- a book that has deluded many poor girls to China--"For the Bible and the Light of Truth the Chinese cry with outstretched, empty, longing hands" (p.

173).