FROM TONKIN TO INDIA 



profess the religion of France at the portals of Thibet. Yet, 

 •despite tile obstacles they encounter, their incessant anxieties, 

 and the persecution of which they are the object, the Fathers, 

 posted like sentinels along the line of the Mekong, await, with 



A Tsekou Christian. 



unwearying patience, constancy, and alertness, the da)- when they 

 shall be admitted into Thibet to carry the banner of Christian 

 religion forward to victory. We could not repress our admira- 

 tion while they spoke of Thibet as of a promised land with an 



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