rehension. In this manner I am not only guilty of ingratitude,
but lose much joy and strength of faith and hope. What should make
me more happy than the thought of the helps and deliverances that
God has vouchsafed me; and in troubles present and to come, what
can give me more faith and courage than to remember that out of
such troubles I was delivered before?

'One thing I sometimes think of. I left Britain with no intention
of travelling; I expected to settle down quietly and confine myself
to a circle I could impress. This plan has been completely changed
and overruled. Two months have I been in Peking; two weeks have I
been in Kalgan; a month have I been in the desert; a month have I
been in Kudara, a small Russian frontier military post; a month and
a half have I been in Kiachta; two months have I been in Mongolia;
and now two weeks have I been travelling in Russia. A year and a
month have elapsed since I left home, and during that time I have
been walking to and fro on the face of the earth, and going up and
down in it. In this way I have not found my life at all dull, but
very stirring. Indeed, many people would have left home to travel
as I have done. I sought it not; it came, and I took it. So as yet
I have no hardships to complain of. To see the places and things I
have seen--Liverpool, Wales, Rock of Lisbon, Gibraltar, Malta,
Egypt, Port Said, Canal, Suez, Red Sea, Cape Gardafui, Indian
Ocean, Penang, Straits of Malacca, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai,
Tientsin, Peking, Kalgan, Desert, Urga, Kiachta, Russia, Baikal,
Irkutsk--only even to see these, men will make long journeys. I
have seen them all without seeking them, with the exception of
Baikal and Irkutsk. These are all by the way, and I dwell upon them
as proofs that God, in sending His servants from home and kindred,
often gives them pleasure and worldly enjoyment on the way, which
He does not promise, and which they have no right to expect.'

After another but briefer sojourn at Olau Bourgass he set out on his
return journey, visited Urga, then crossed the great plain on horseback
in the course of fourteen days, and reached Kalgan on June 11. After a
rest there he made two excursions into Mongolia, visiting Lama Miao,
one of the great Mongol religious centres, in the first; and occupying
some weeks with a furt