14 AMONG THE PAGANS ‘OF THE SOUTHERN SUDAN In 1920, at the repeated request of the Government, another important piece of work was undertaken—the opening of a boarding school for chiefs’ sons and others at JUBA, ninety-four miles south of Malek. The object of the missionaries is to provide a boarding school with definite Christian influence, so that those boys who wish for higher education need not be sent to the Gordon Memorial College at Khartoum, where the influence is Mohammedan. The school opened with four boys from the Acholi country roo miles away; the smallest of them arrived with three porters, and a tusk of ivory to pay his school fees! Now there are some forty-five boys, representing seven different tribes. It is hoped that in time the school will be quite self-supporting, for the boys are learning to grow their own corn and other food. Most of them are sons of chiefs, and it is the great hope of the missionaries that when they leave school to take up their chieftainships and other responsible posts, they may go as baptized Christians. There is no. better way of forestalling Islam than by winning these leaders of the future for Christ, and fitting them to be teachers and missionaries to their own people.

| The First Hospital Work among the Moru people has lately been begun by Dr. and Mrs. K. G. Fraser, who have opened a medical mission station at YiLu, fifteen miles south of Amadi, and about 120 miles south-west of Malek. Dr. Fraser describes it as a lovely spot, right among the hills, and when the official high road, now in course of construction, is finished, it will pass through the station, and -will provide ready access for patients from different parts of the country. Dr. Fraser finds the Morus.a most. cheery and attractive tribe, who are “‘ simply longing for light, and many of them for healing.’’ A temporary hospital has been built, with-a ward, operating: theatre, general dressing room, and dispensary. The chief of the neighbourhood, who is practically ‘never away from the station, is acting as assistant to Dr. Fraser, and doing very well. Already a number of successful operations and treatments