A MISSIONARY'S Jd 
THROUGH LAQS FROM BAN 
AM glad to be able to communicate to the Straits 
Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society some notes 
made by a Missionary on his way from Bangkok 
to Ubon to convert the Laos tribes. 
Missionaries penetrate gradually and from dif- 
ferent directions into the midst of these savage 
tribes, and try to convert them to Christianity. The story 
of what occurred among the wild Ba-huars, an independent 
tribe on the West of Cochin-China near the 14° lat. N. and 
106° long. EH. ( Paris), is well known. In the beginning 
of 1884 five Missionaries were murdered by brigands while 
they were engaged in establishing a Mission among the 
Chau tribe in the West of Tonquin. 
For some time past the Mission in Siam has maintained 
astanenear Ubon, near 157 20) IN.) lat. and’ 1022.30). H. 
lone.) (Paris) ‘on ihe Seimoun, a tributary of the Mekong. 
It is the Narrative of a Missionary on his way to Ubon which 
I have now the pleasure of communicating. 
INEIC: 
It is not a carefully composed narrative that I propose to 
give you, but simply a journal kept from day to day, written 
often by the light of a torch, or of the setting sun, when, tired 
by the day’s march, we had pitched our camp for the night. In 
order to take the place of Pére RonpEt, invalided, I started with 
