her spell of Mongol tent life during the second.

His diary, under date of September 22, 1871, while he was resting at
Kalgan, thus sums up his experiences:--

'I desire to-day to look back on the way by which the Lord has led
me for the last year. In September 1870 I was looking out eagerly,
anxiously for someone who was going to Russia, that I might go with
him. I could find no one. I made it a subject of prayer, and at
last, when I was on my knees, in came McCoy to tell me of a Russian
who was going up without delay. I saw the Russian, and arranged to
go, and started. "While they are speaking I will answer them."

'On the journey between Peking and Kalgan I was alone, I may say,
and could speak little Chinese, yet I got on very well; and though
my money was in a box on the back of a donkey, yet it came in all
safe, none lost. In Kalgan I had difficulty at first about finding
camels, but at length the Russian postmaster turned out to be going
home. The time when was uncertain, quite; his departure depended on
the coming of his successor. I prayed about this, and one day was
informed that the successor had arrived much sooner than was
expected, and that we were to start in a day or two. We did start,
and after a prosperous journey arrived safely at Kiachta.

'There I found Grant and Hegemann, two Englishmen. I went to live
in Grant's country house at Kudara. A difficulty arose about a
teacher. I prayed about this, and strolling along came upon a tent
in which was a man who was out of employment, and he being
educated, I engaged him to be my teacher. In Kiachta, after some
delay, I got a teacher, but not to my satisfaction. After I had
been with him a time Grant remarked one day that I did not seem to
be making much progress in the language. This stung me to the
quick, and made me go down into Mongolia. Here I was directed to
the tent of Grant's contractor, and with him I made arrangements to
live. I thank God for not permitting me to get a good teacher in
Kiachta. Had I got a good teacher there, I would simply have
remained there, and I am sure would not have learned half as much
of the language as I did in the tent at Mongolia, would have got
none of the insight I gained into the style of Mongolian life, and
would not have got the introduction I had ther