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fanaticism. Being always possessed of some medical skill, 

 these missionaries might expect to be tolerated, if not 

 exactly welcomed, in most places on account of their 

 helpfulness. Doing good wherever possible, even if not 

 converting many, their lives were the best commentary 

 on their teachings. 



The Government chaplains, on the contrary, were sup- 

 posed to make a pretty good thing of it ; in no sense was 

 their work a ' mission,' nor did it lead them into the by- 

 ways of hardship and risk. Socially they considered 

 themselves many cuts above their missionary brethren, 

 who devoted themselves entirely to their calling, hardly 

 taking any part in the social life or amusements of a station. 



In what I have said I have made a rough generalisation. 

 To my first statement — regarding the missionaries and their 

 devoted lives — we met with no exceptions ; to the com- 

 parative worldliness of the others, we knew many and 

 grand ones. 



