% 1G@) AMONG THE PAGANS OF THE SOUTHERN SUDAN Within a few months they occupied Gwalla, ten miles from the river, and Malek, five miles south of Melwal, where a_ dispensary was opened (which at first, however, attracted but few patients). But it was not long before the stations at Bor and Melwal had to be abandoned, because the missionaries in charge of them had either been invalided home or. transferred to other spheres of work, and only the Rev. A. Shaw. was left at Marek. When he came home on furlough in 1908 the work at that station also was in abeyance for several months, but it entered on a new lease of life when he returned, accompanied by Mr. W. H. Scamell..

It became evident that the Dinkas had appreciated the work among them more than had been thought, for they began to ond the dispensary in larger numbers and more regularly than before.

The dispensary work proved a most valuable means of getting into touch with the people and winning their confidence (especially as the Dinkas have an unaccountable love for medicine), and also afforded good opportunities for preaching. As the dispensary became more widely known, people would come from long’ distances, one woman even walking from a village forty miles away, carrying her sick child in a basket on her head; and on returning to their own people, would tell of the wonderful new teaching of the white men.

ce ns! a missionary needs to be ‘‘a good all-round man,’’ for many and various are the things he is called oo to do. The labours of the missionaries in the Southern Sudan were made more strenuous by the strong disinclination of the Dinkas to lend a helping hand. The former were very largely their own house builders (not a light matter when one has had no previous training, even though the houses consist only of mud and thatch), and their other activities included painting and repairing the mission boats, cooking, cutting out and making primitive garments for their Dinka ‘‘ house boys, ’? mending their own clothes and washing and ironing the” same when necessary.