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to the surface or not I cannot say. I presume he 

 could not very well answer that question himself. 

 However, the biggest one had the money and the 

 little one had the cry, and the intervening two had 

 another turn at the " Yah, yah, yah ! Ha, ha, ha 

 Trow away, Mistuh; me dive." 



Did I hear you ask about their clothing ? A very 

 insignificant matter, sir, very. The less said about it the 

 better. Whether in or out of water, they thoroughly 

 answer the conundrum which fond mothers so often 

 put, " How shall we prevent our boys from wearing 

 out the knees of their trousers ?" Reduce them to the 

 rank to which these fellows are reared, and send them 

 forth "sans culottes," and they give you no further 

 trouble in this particular. 



I am delighted to find that here at Aden a good 

 work is being done in the distribution of Bibles, 

 Testaments, and portions among the people. Only a 

 short time ago there occurred the sound conversion of 

 an Islam to the Christian faith. He has given him- 

 self up fully to colporteur and evangelistic work, and 

 is already proving himself a workman that needeth 

 not to be ashamed. Oh, how much these lands need 

 a great army of such as he ! May our God soon raise 

 them up. 



We weighed anchor at 4 p.m., and at ten o'clock 



