Besides, any expenditure incurred would have been reimbursed by the Inland Mission.

My three men were pursued by cruel fate on their return; they all were taken ill at Pupiao.

Poor "Bones" and the pock-marked coolie died, and Laotseng lay ill in the hotel there for weeks, and, when he recovered sufficiently to go on to Tali, he had to go without the three loads, which the landlord of the inn detained, pending the payment of his board and lodging and the burial expenses of his two companions..