st. I
taught him much he did not know, and at a lonely place we sat down
and lifted our voices to heaven in prayer. It was the pleasantest
walk I ever had in Mongolia, and at the same time the most painful.
My feet broke down altogether. It was evident I could not walk back
again the next day, so, acting on my follower's advice, by a great
effort I walked into the inn as if my feet were all right; we
bargained for a cart and, the Chinaman not suspecting the state of
my feet, we got it at a reasonable rate. Mongols and Chinese joined
in explaining to me how much time and labour I would have saved if
I had hired a cart at first, taken everything with me, and not
returned to the inn at all. From their point of view they were
right; but the blackman and I looked at the thing from a different
standpoint. We had accomplished our purpose, and felt that we could
afford to let our neighbours plume themselves on their supposed
superior wisdom.

'Another day's rest at this place gave me what I much wanted--an
opportunity for a long quiet talk with the mandarin of this small
tribe. I was especially anxious to explain to him the true nature
of Christianity, because the Mongol who professes Christianity
lives under his jurisdiction, and I felt sure that a right
understanding of the case might be of service in protecting the
professor from troubles that are likely to come to him through men
misunderstanding his case. The mandarin came. On my last visit I
had been the means of curing him of a troublesome complaint over
which he had spent much time and money; in addition, I had brought
him a present from England. He was perfectly friendly and
exceedingly attentive, and at the close of the conversation asked
some questions which I thought evinced that he had somewhat entered
into the spirit of the conversation. He is a man of few words, but
from what he said I hope that he feels something of the truth of
Christianity.

'My next expedition was to a mandarin of wealth and rank, whose
encampment occupies a commanding site on a mountain-side
overlooking a large lake. I found him at home, and, as he knows
well the main doctrines of Christianity, my main mission to him at
this time was to try and rouse him to earnestness of thought and
action in regard to his