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house was open to them day and night. If a man came to 

 him and said, " I have no rice for my family to eat to- 

 day," he would give him half of what he had in the house, 

 however little that might be. If another said, " I have 

 no money to pay my debt," he would give him half the 

 contents of his purse, were it his last dollar. So, when 

 he was himself in want, he would send to some of the 

 wealthiest among his flock, and say, " I have no rice in 

 the house," or " I have given away my money, and am in 

 want of such and such articles." The result was that his 

 flock trusted and loved him, for they felt sure that he was 

 their true friend, and had no ulterior designs in living 

 among them. 



The island of Singapore consists of a multitude of small 

 hills, three or four hundred feet high, the summits of many 

 of which are still covered with virgin forest. The mission- 

 house at Bukit-tima was surrounded by several of these 

 wood-topped hills, which were much frequented by wood- 

 cutters and sawyers, and offered me an excellent collecting 

 ground for insects. Here and there, too, were tiger pits, 

 carefully covered over with sticks and leaves, and so well 

 concealed, that in several cases I had a narrow escape from 

 falling into them. They are shaped like an iron furnace, 

 wider at the bottom than the top, and are perhaps fifteen 

 or twenty feet deep, so that it would be almost impossible 



