were distributed, with manifold
instructions, repeated again and again, until the patient's clod-like
brain had been penetrated and set in motion. Even then one would turn
round at the door and say, "Then I am to eat this ointment?"

A woman was given some salts wrapped in paper, to be mixed with water and
taken the next morning fasting. She did not come again for a month, and
she brought with her a large earthen pot half full of water and paper.
She had mixed the salts in this with their wrapping, and had been
drinking a mouthful daily, but felt no better.

Miss Banks gave a woman in good circumstances a bottle of medicine which
was to last her eight days, and be taken after food; also some liniment
for external use. An urgent summons came two days later: the woman was
dying. "I thought it did me so much good that last night I took all the
rest, and then I drank the liniment," she said. She recovered.

A man did the same with pills--was so much pleased with the effect of one
that he devoured the rest all at once. They invariably ate the paper in
which pills or powders were wrapped.

On one occasion Miss Banks went to see a girl whom she was attending, and
who seemed worse. The answer, when asked if she was having her medicine
regularly, was, "Oh no! she's so ill just now. When she's a little
better, we shall give it to her."

Supposing that a patient dies, or a man who has once been a patient dies,
the people have no hesitation in saying to the missionaries when they
meet them in the street, "Oh! So-and-so's taken your medicine, and it's
killed him."

It is impossible to trust Moors with medicines which could damage them;
this seriously handicaps a doctor: in extreme cases the dose must be
administered by the doctor personally.

Besides the dispensary, the missionaries had day schools for the
children, night schools for boys, and mothers' meetings for women. Here,
again, the mothers who attended the meetings were given the material of
the clothes which they made for nothing; but they were obliged to sit
down and listen to a Bible lesson first. It was one way, it was an
opportunity, of bringing Christianity before Mohammedans.

[Illustration: MOORS AT HOME.

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Thus through the meetings and the schools and the dispensary the
missionaries knew many of the women in Tetuan, and there were few houses
into which they had not been at one time or another. Sometimes it was
possible to read to the