Mr.Williams was then alone amid the multitudes using the Arabic that centered around Mardin and Mosul; and Mr.Walker was the only missionary at Diarbekir, with at least a thousand towns and villages in his district.

Yet it was a year of decided progress in Turkey.

The missionary force received an unwonted accession in the years 1866 and 1867.

Five ordained married missionaries arrived in the last of these years, namely, Messrs.
Henry T.Perry, Theodore Baldwin, Henry S.Barnum, Charles C.Tracy, and Lyman Bartlett, with as many unmarried female assistant missionaries,--Misses Roseltha A.Norcross, Mary E.Warfield, Harriet Seymour, Sarah Ann Closson, and Mary G.Hollister.

Mr.Henry O.Dwight, son of the distinguished missionary, Dr.H.G.O.