"I suppose you are riding a mule," he said, "for you English have large bones, and the Chinese ponies are very small." I said that I had come so far most of the way on foot.

"You speak Chinese, of course ?" "Hardly at all; I speak only a dozen words of Chinese." "Then you have a Chinese interpreter?
No! An English companion who can speak Chinese?
No! A Chinese servant who can speak English?
No, and no escort! But without doubt you are armed?
No! No escort, no revolver, no companion, and you can live on Chinese food.

Ah! you have a brave heart, Monsieur." At the time of my visit to Yunnan, Pere de Gorostarza, the accomplished Provicaire, was absent at Mungtze deciding a question of discipline.
Four months before one of the most trusted converts of the mission had been sent to Mungtze to purchase a property for the use of the mission.
He was given the purchase-money of 400 taels, but, when he arrived in Mungtze, and the eye of the mission was no longer upon him, he invested the money, not in premises for the mission, but in a coolie-hong for himself.

His backsliding had availed him little.

And he was now defending his conduct as best he could before the Bishop's deputy.
Converts of the French mission in China, it is well to remember, are no longer French subjects or _proteges_; the objection is no longer tenable that the mission shields bad characters who only become converted in order to escape from the consequences of their guilt.
How wonderful has been the pioneer work done by the Jesuit Missionaries in China! It may almost be said that the foundation of all that we know about China we owe to the Jesuit Missionaries.