The problem of reaching the nomad population is a very serious one. The data for a correct theory of work among them are yet to be collected. Experience of work among them has been very limited; indeed the only work of importance was that of Samuel Van Tassel in North Arabia. As a class they are less religious than the town or agricultural Arabs. One who has studied the subject writes: “The Arabs [Bedouins] remain Mohammedans simply because they know of nothing better; the Bedouins are Moslems only in name observing the prescribed forms in the neighborhood of the towns, but speedily casting them aside on regaining the desert. Yet there are men among them not without reverent thoughts of the Creator, derived from the contemplation of His works, thoughts which, according to Palmer, take sometimes the form of solemn but simple prayer.” The character of missionary work among this nomad population (perhaps one-fourth or fifth of the population of the peninsula) will be very similar to that of James Gilmour among the Mongols; and it will require men of his stamp to carry it on successfully. [Illustration: POPULATION TOUCHED BY MISSION EFFORT. Aden, etc., 100,000. Bahrein, 60,000. Muscat, 20,000 Busrah and Bagdad, 520,000 ] _The present missionary force in Arabia is utterly inadequate to supply the needs even of that small portion of the field they have occupied._ There are only _four_ points on a coast of four thousand miles where there are missionaries. There is not a single missionary over ten miles inland from this coast. No missionary has ever crossed the peninsula in either direction. The total number of foreign missionaries in Arabia, is less than a dozen—twelve workers, men and women, let us say, for a population of 8,000,000 souls. [Illustration: AREA VISITED BY MISSIONARIES. Aden, etc., 8,000 square miles. Bahrein, 400 “ “ Muscat, 600 square miles. Busrah and Bagdad, 71,000 “ “ ]