The Ambassador was exceedingly kind; so were Mr.and Mrs.Nesbit, who have been already introduced to the reader.

Dr.Riach, afterwards at the head of the embassy, stayed five days and nights with Mrs.Perkins, not retiring from the house till he saw some hope of her recovery.

"The treatment we received from them on our first arrival," writes the missionary nine years after, "is but a specimen of their kindness to us from that period to the present." The field about to be occupied was of limited extent.

The Nestorians numbered not more than one hundred and fifty thousand souls.

Their territory extended from Lake Oroomiah three hundred miles westward to the Tigris, and two hundred miles from north to south, embracing some most rugged mountain ranges, and several very beautiful and fertile plains, the largest of which formed the district of Oroomiah.