On the plain of Oroomiah seventy-three free schools were reported, with more than a thousand boys, and one hundred and fifty girls and women as pupils.
In Gawar, two schools embraced fourteen boarding and thirty-two day scholars.

Fourteen of these were from Jeloo, Bass, and Tekhoma districts.

Among them were four deacons, four from the family of the bishop of Jeloo, and nearly all were from prominent families.

They were wild mountaineers, and in some thing's difficult to manage, but they acquired knowledge rapidly and with delight; and the constant study of the Bible wrought a perceptible change in them.

In the Bootan districts, hitherto inaccessible to missionary influence, there was now a strong desire for schools, and for the labors of evangelical teachers.
The New Testament in the modern language was beginning to be circulated among the people; a much enlarged edition of the hymn book had been issued, and a volume, entitled "Scripture Facts," had a wide circulation.