I lived for several weeks at a time with the missionary at Bukit-tima, about the centre of the island, where a pretty church has been built and there are about 300 converts.

While there, I met a missionary who had just arrived from Tonquin, where he had been living for many years.

The Jesuits still do their work thoroughly as of old.

In Cochin China, Tonquin, and China, where all Christian teachers are obliged to live in secret, and are liable to persecution, expulsion, and sometimes death, every province--even those farthest in the interior--has a permanent Jesuit mission establishment constantly kept up by fresh aspirants, who are taught the languages of the countries they are going to at Penang or Singapore.

In China there are said to be near a million converts; in Tonquin and Cochin China, more than half a million.