This action gave them some claim to help the boy, and the boy has accordingly been with them since in a comfortable, kindly home, instead of grovelling round the streets in squalor and nakedness.
The mission-house, formerly occupied by Mr.George Clarke is near the City Temple.

We went to see it a day or two after my arrival.

It is now in the possession of a family of Mohammedans, one of the very few Moslem families still living in the valley of Tali.

"When we were in possession of the valley," said the father sorrowfully, "we numbered '12,000 tens' (120,000 souls), now we are '100 fives' (500 souls).

Our men were slain, our women were taken in prey, only a remnant escaped the destroyer." Several members of the family were in the court when we entered, and among the men were three with marked Anglo-Saxon features, a peculiarity frequently seen in Western China, where every traveller has given a different explanation of the phenomenon.