Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . ation in the far North. These were Eev. W. C. Dodd, A. Briggs, , and Rev. Eobert Irwin. Dr. Briggs andMr. Dodd left Chiung-Hai Oct. 27th and arrived at ChiungToong, in British territory, Nov. 9th. Mr. Irwin was thenin Burmah, returning to the field by that route from his fur-lough in Amerifca. By means of telegraph it was arranged thathe should meet his colleagues at the city of Yuang , after ten busy days in Chiung Toong,
Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . ation in the far North. These were Eev. W. C. Dodd, A. Briggs, , and Rev. Eobert Irwin. Dr. Briggs andMr. Dodd left Chiung-Hai Oct. 27th and arrived at ChiungToong, in British territory, Nov. 9th. Mr. Irwin was thenin Burmah, returning to the field by that route from his fur-lough in Amerifca. By means of telegraph it was arranged thathe should meet his colleagues at the city of Yuang , after ten busy days in Chiung Toong, Mr. Dodd andDr. Briggs set out to make extensive circuits through separateregions and tribes, and meet each other at Muang programme was successfully carried out. Mr. Doddarrived at the rendezvous, and found that Dr. Briggs andMr. Irwin had encountered each other on the road and ar-rived together a few days earlier. From this point they returneddirectly homeward, reaching Chiung-Hai a few days after Christ-mas, after an absence of sixty-four days. Wliile no opportunityfor evangelism was allowed to go unimproved, this tour was 223. Ait ^A^ J^ii^^S (^^i^nlnz LAOS-CHIUNG-MAI. 225 properly one of missionary exploration beyond the boundariesof the Siamese dominions, and was intended to throw as muchlight as possible on the geographical limits, and the racial andlinguistic peculiarities of the field open to the Laos Mission; andalso to investigate the question of the best location for a missionstation in this northern district. The results of the tour alongthese and other lines were most interesting and important. Itshowed beyond a doubt what was already suspected, th-^t the fieldof the Laos Mission, the Laos language and the Laos characterso recently put into print by our missionaries, is far larger thanany one supposed a few years since—that it stretches as far asthe borders of China, and embraces not only Siamese, butFrench, British and Chinese territory. It showed,
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