250 SUCCESS OF THE SCHOOLS.

verbenas, and roses, were blowing, and looking quite homelike. One of the sisters, a Swiss, possessed some medical knowledge, and, with pardonable pride, showed us her dispensary, well furnished with neat rows of bottles and drawers.

Everything about the mission was comfortable and Europeanlooking, in great contrast to its surroundings, — rooms with red-tiled floors, furnished with chairs and tables, linen-presses, a sewing-machine, etc. We saw two harmoniums ; one in the church, another in a room in which one of the sisters was holding a singing-class.

Prettier children it would be hard to find ; and all looked clean, happy, and well cared for. We heard them sing a hymn in praise of the Virgin, in French, which they did very well ; then they indulged us in a quaint Abyssinian dance. Sewing is a great part of the education of both boys and girls, and we saw a class in one room learning to sew.

There are three of these mission-establishments in Abyssinia belonging to the same society, but they have no sisters attached to them. At Massawa they have, however ; and I believe the establishment there is as large as, or larger than, that at Sanheit.

They have nothing to do with the missions at Khartoum or Berber, which are, I believe, not nearly so flourishing or wellmanaged.

The most disheartening part of the mission was, as the fathers and sisters confessed to us, the difficulty in finding situations for their proteges after they had reared and educated them. Outcast from their own people, and unable to find employment amongst the Mussulman authorities, they are thrown on their own resources ; which proves more fatal to the women than to the men.