. Comstock's friends who knew her in her good work
abroad. Much of the remainder had come in small sums, and from the
Christian women of America. One third was furnished by the Society of
Friends. Ohio gave more than any other State. The State and municipal
funds of Kansas were not drawn upon at all, though much had come from
private sources.

During the first year in Kansas, the freedmen entered upon 20,000
acres of land, and plowed and fitted for grain-growing 3,000 acres.
They built 300 cabins and dugouts, and accumulated $30,000. In 1878
Henry Carter, of Tennessee, set out from Topeka on foot for Dunlap,
sixty-five miles away; he carrying his tools, and his wife their
bedclothes. In 1880 he had forty acres of land cleared and the first
payment made, having earned his money on sheep ranches and elsewhere
by daily labor. He has built a good stone cottage sixteen feet by ten,
owns two cows, a horse, etc. In Topeka, where there were about 3,000
refugees, nearly all paupers when they came, all have found means in
some way to make a living. These people have shown themselves worthy
of aid. Mrs. Comstock has heard of only five or six cases of
intoxication in nine months, and of no arrests for stealing. They do
not want to settle where there is no church, and are all eager to have
a Bible and to learn. Schools have been opened for the adults--the
public schools of Kansas wisely making no distinction on account of
color,--and also industrial schools, especially for women, who are
quite ignorant of the ordinary duties of home life.

In the month of February, 1880, John M. Brown, Esq., General
Superintendent of the Freedmen's Relief Association read an
interesting report before the Association, from which the following
extract is taken:

"The great exodus of Colored people from the South began about
the 1st of February, 1879. By the 1st of April 1,300 refugees had
gathered around Wyandotte, Ks. Many of them were in a suffering
condition. It was then that the Kansas Relief Association came
into existence for the purpose of helping the most needy among
the refugees from the Southern States. Up to date about 60,000
refugees have come to the State of Kansas to live. Nearly 40,000
of them were in a destitute condition when they arrived, and have
been helped by our association. We have received to date $68,000
for the relief of the refugees. About 5,000 of those who have
com