A Thousand Miles in a Machilla 



and sixty-eight, scholars eleven thousand eight 

 hundred and twenty-two in all; one thousand four 

 hundred and sixty-six of these are in different 

 schools on the island. The attendance in the girls' 

 school rises sometimes to two hundred. A kinder- 

 garten system for infant children has also been 

 instituted. 



On the site of the old witch-burning ground at 

 Likoma stands a fine cathedral of brick and granite. 

 It is cruciform in shape, from east to west two 

 hundred and eighty feet long, and across the 

 transept eighty-five feet wide, and when complete, 

 with its chapter-house, cloisters, and library, will 

 cover thirty-seven thousand square feet of ground. 

 The whole of the work was carried out by native 

 Christians and learners. 



The medical work in connection with the Mission 

 is steadily increasing. In 1899 Dr. Howard arrived 

 at Likoma, and the first nurse was stationed at 

 Kota Kota. Since then several more have been 

 added to the staff; for there is a nurse at each 

 of the European stations. 



Here also is a large native hospital for men 

 and one for women, also a European hospital. In 

 the dispensary a nurse, with native assistants, 

 spends several hours each morning attending to 

 out-patients. These native assistants have been 

 taught by a doctor to bandage and dress wounds. 

 During the epidemic of small-pox a great deal of 

 vaccination was undertaken. Now most natives in 

 touch with the Mission have been vaccinated. 



Many traders and members of the Administra- 



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