186 PHOTOGRAPH OF MONSEIGNEUB BIET 



they dwell. Their food is coarse and often scanty, and 

 their lives are frequently in danger. The Bishop 

 himself now seldom leaves his house, but does all the 

 Ohurch work there through the Fathers and the con- 

 siderable number of converts that have been made. 



The winter weather is now too severe for him, and 

 in the autumn he goes down to Cha-pa, just below 

 Lu-ting-chiao, and remains there till the spring. He 

 was not in good health when I last saw him. 



On July 8 I took his photograph, and he was 

 delighted at the idea of sending copies to his friends 

 and relations. My camera was undoubtedly the first 

 that had ever been in this region, and by its agency 

 the Bishop was enabled to send to his friends of twenty- 

 five years ago a tolerably faithful picture of himself. 

 The devotion of the French missionaries in general to 

 the cause of their religion deserves notice. No work 

 is too hard for them, no living too poor. They are not 

 deterred by epidemics of sickness or by threatened 

 massacre. They have simply devoted their lives to the 

 propagation of their religion, and nothing can turn them 

 from their purpose. Much they have done, but much 

 more remains to be done ; and it struck me forcibly, 

 during my travels, that they, above all others, are the 

 most determined that it shall be done. 



The inn in which I had my quarters was fairly com- 



