Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . ve been able toreach only a very few of the near these winter months we expectto tent in some of the towns farther out. The farm people live mostly in verysmall villages, in many of which thereare only six or eight houses. After wego to a village a few times these peopleare quite open-hearted, and when notbusy with their farm work they listenvery well to our talk. But they are ig-norant, very slow to understand and asquick to forget. In these small villageswe do not get so many hearers, but theyhave some advantages over the largertowns in that ther
Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . ve been able toreach only a very few of the near these winter months we expectto tent in some of the towns farther out. The farm people live mostly in verysmall villages, in many of which thereare only six or eight houses. After wego to a village a few times these peopleare quite open-hearted, and when notbusy with their farm work they listenvery well to our talk. But they are ig-norant, very slow to understand and asquick to forget. In these small villageswe do not get so many hearers, but theyhave some advantages over the largertowns in that there is not likely to be somuch opposition when some become in-terested in the Word. As a whole thisclass seems quite promising. But theyare great drinkers. They say they canget along with very little food but musthave their liquor. Just outside of Vyara is a liquor dis-tillery, conducted by the the liquor is made from the thick,juicy blossom of the mhowra tree, whichgrows wild. Some of it is spiced to varythe A Street Scene in Vyara. Building in Distance is Hotel Over Liquor Store. Policeman in Right Front. Dogs Lying Down That Do Not Get Up at Approach of Any One. Besides the regular town school forboys we have in our town a girls schoolthat has run for several years, an Anglo-vernacular school that opened this sea-son, and a boarding school for boys ofthe aboriginal or darker classes. Uponentering this boarding school each boymust pay about $ His clothes andboard are supplied by the he remains long enough to graduatethis entrance fee is re-turned. The coursesinclude seven yearswork. During the tenyears this school hasbeen running one hun-dred boys have gradu-ated from it, and manymore have been inschool for less from this schoolare generally the onlypersons in the farmervillages that can reador write. Within thelast year the Gaekwar,or ruler, of this terri-tory has made an ef- fort to provide aschool in reach of eachvillage
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