“I had long been promising myself a visit to my old patient, Chek Chong, the Chinese fisherman whose arm I amputated five or six years ago to save his life, threatened by mortification resulting from an alligator bite that had nearly severed the poor man’s wrist. The loss of his arm seems to have been under Providence the means of saving his soul, for the religious impression he received while in the hospital never left him; he then expressed himself willing to make our God his God. Being unable to read and not being able to speak Siamese at all ... we referred him to our brethren of the Baptist mission with some of whose church members he was already acquainted.... After a due season of instruction and probation they received him to church membership about a year ago. “Living some sixty to seventy miles from Bangkok he cannot often see his spiritual teachers, and would be quite shut out from religious privilege, were it not that Bangplasoi has been made a kind of an outstation by the Baptist mission.... So when I was invited to accompany Mr. Ashmore to that mission, I readily accepted.... “While there, Chek Chong told me that ever since he had lived with us at the hospital he had observed the Sabbath, refraining from labour. Looking around at the evidence of thrift about him, I replied: ‘I do not believe you are the poorer for losing one day’s work in seven.’ ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘while the fish business has turned out poorly this season, out of thirty engaged in it of my neighbours, only four have succeeded at all, and I am one.’ “We attended morning and evening worship with the family and such of their neighbours as chose to come in and listen.... Chek Chong being called on to lead in prayer, offered up thanks most devoutly that ‘the redheaded (_i. e._, not black like Chinese) foreign teachers had come to visit him.’ He seems to have much influence for Christ; he is not ashamed of our Christ; two of his nephews are inquirers; the wife puts no hindrance in his way.” The other trip was made in November, when the doctor explored the Meinam “farthest north” up to that date, reaching Pitsanuloke and Pichit and occupying thirty-three days. Some sixty to seventy villages were visited along the way and more than thirteen hundred tracts given only to those who could read. CLOUDED FRIENDSHIPS