nter wear robes lined inside with fur. A
rich robe is lined with fine material, but the common thing is
white lambskin. Well, these fellows simply become turn-coats for
the time, and put on their fur robes inside out, and thus were in
the fashion. The coffin itself was laid in a magnificent bier
towering high, surmounted by a gilt top piece, hung with silks, and
borne by forty-eight bearers.

'Of course everything has to make way for the funeral. The Peking
streets are very wide, and at the same time very narrow. In the
centre and high up is a cart road with an up and a down line, along
the sides of this are ditches and holes, beyond these ditches and
holes is another way more or less passable, and beyond that again
the shops. The funeral procession took the crown of the road, crept
along at its snail's pace, while the traffic took to the side
roads.

'After a good long walk among stalls and wheelbarrows I got back to
my abode, found a good fire, and that it was high time to go to the
Chinese service. I don't understand all I hear, but I understand
some, and make a point of hearing one and sometimes two Chinese
sermons on the Sabbath. An old Chinaman was preaching, and I could
see from the manner of the congregation that he was securing the
fixed attention of his hearers. Before the sermon was ended there
was a bustle at the door, and in came three Mongols with my Chinese
card. They were asked to wait till the service was concluded, then
I took them to my quarters and had some conversation with them. One
of them had come for the doctor, and wished to get cured of so
prosaic a disease as the itch.

'Before I was finished with them, my servant came to say that
another Mongol had called for me and was waiting for me in
Edkins's. When I went over I found an old Mongol, a blackman,
fifty-eight years of age. This layman was named Amaesa, and has been
in the habit of paying Mr. Edkins visits every winter when he comes
down to Peking. Last year he did not come, and we were concluding
that he had died. Of course we were glad to see him. I got him into
my room and we had quite an afternoon of it. The old man knew a
good deal about Christianity, and I gave him what additional
instruction I could. Of all the Mongols I have seen he is, perhaps,
the