136 PHOTOGRAPH OF MONSEIGNEUER 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 
Church 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 JI had my quarters was fairly com- 
