THE MISSION ESTABLISHMENT. 249 Europe. They clothe, feed, and educate seventy girls and eighty boys, all of whom live in the establishment. We were conducted over the dormitories, which were very airy and scrupulously clean ; each child had an aiigaieb, with the bedclothes belonging to it neatly folded up and placed at the foot. We were shown one large room, in which was a printingpress, where religious books were being printed in the Amharic language (one of the languages of Abyssinia) by one of the fathers. We were next taken to the carpenter's shop, where cart-wheels were being made. Every thing is done by the fathers themselves. There are two carts, drawn by bullocks belonging to the mission, — the only wheeled conveyances I ever saw in the Soudan.

Besides the children who live at the mission, and who are mostly from Abyssinia, they have five hundred belonging to Sanheit, who attend the schools daily. It not unfrequently happens, that a mother will sell her child ; whenever the priests hear of such a case, they go to the government authorities, who make the mother give up the money to the purchaser, and hand the child over to the mission. One such child had arrived, the very morning of our visit, a little boy between two and three years old ; his mother had sold him for three dollars ! The priest had christened him Lorenzo.

We went inside the church, — really a very nice building, with a vaulted roof. A native priest, an Abyssinian I believe, was engaged in baptising some fresh converts. We were told, that, during an earthquake some two or three years ago, a great part of the roof had fallen in, and that every thing in the church had been overturned except the image of the Virgin and Child over the high altar. We went to see the sisters in a large airy room, opening out of a courtyard in which European flowers, such as geraniums,