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difficulties and with such cheerfulness and courage. The 

 Medical Mission was especially interesting. It formed an 

 important part of the mission work; and not only were 

 the natives round about treated, but those from far away 

 also came in numbers. At the time of our visit there were 



American Mission, Sobat River 

 From a photograph by Edmund Heller 



about thirty patients, taking courses of treatment, who 

 had come from distances varying from twenty-five miles 

 to a hundred and fifty. 



We steamed steadily down the Nile. Where the great 

 river bent to the east we would sit in the shade on the for- 

 ward deck during the late afternoon and look down the 

 long glistening water-street in front of us, with its fringe 

 of reedbed and marshy grassland and papyrus swamp, and 

 the slightly higher dry land on which grew acacias and 

 scattered palms. Along the river banks and inland were 



