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and an imposing sight they made as they drove out of Mr. 
Macartney’s yard. They equipped their large caravan in 
Cherchen, and thence crossed Tibet from north to south. 
At the same time we heard with dismay of Dutreuil de 
Rhins’s sad end. He was attacked and murdered in the 
summer of the same year at Tam-buddha. The news 
was brought by four of his men, who had returned to 
Kashgar. 
Then came the Russian Christmas, twelve days after 
ours, and the consulate became busy and animated again. 
Cossack waits woke me up with plaintive songs on 
Christmas morning, and in the consul’s house there were 
great festivities. 
It was a great pleasure to me, on my return to Kashgar, 
to meet a fellow-countryman in the person of the mission- 
ary, Mr. Hogberg ; who had come there with his wife and 
little girl, a Swedish lady missionary, and a converted 
Persian, one Mirza Joseph. In the first place, coming 
there at all with two ladies had been an imprudence ; for 
the Mohammedans could not be brought to believe other 
than that Mr. Hogberg had two wives. But when, later 
on, Mirza Joseph married the Swedish lady missionary, the 
prospects of the mission in that town were destroyed for 
many a year to come ; for in the eyes of the people of 
Kashgar Mirza Joseph was still a Mohammedan, and 
such, according to the Koran, are forbidden to choose 
their wives from among an unbelieving people. I gladly 
pass over the construction put upon this marriage, and 
the unpleasantness it caused ; but to many in Kashgar 
it afforded a painful illustration of the way in which 
missionary work is often mismanaged, and how lightly 
missionaries take the grave responsibilities which they 
have voluntarily incurred. 
When Mr. Hogberg found that it would be dangerous 
to begin an active propaganda at once, he wisely restricted 
his energies to the manufacture of various common house- 
hold articles, such as the people of Kashgar would find 
useful, and such as they made themselves in a very 
primitive fashion. For instance, he constructed a capital 
