The scheme that I should strongly advise is a sanitarium and school in the north, with your own steamer on the Nile; a mission near the Sobat; and if the White Nile is found to keep open, another at the head of navigation. In the course of years such a scheme would probably make a mark in the countries it reached; but to succeed it must have at its head a man of courage and brains, a man of sleepless energy, a man hungry and thirsty for work, and he must be a diplomat as well, for he will be terribly worried on all sides. I have suggested a point near the Sobat for a mission, because at that point relations could be established with some of the largest tribes—the Shillooks, Dinkas and Nouers—and because it is the last point at which a colony could be planted north of the great swamp basin. A colony south of that is liable to be cut off for months and even years, by the formation of the “sud” or grass barrier in the Nile. Undoubtedly the Sobat region is inferior in land and climate to the high lands south of Gondokoro; but, as I have pointed out, to isolate your mission so that it cannot be rapidly recruited and supplied will be fatal. Of this I am positive. When you find that the Soudan authorities are sure or even likely to keep communications open up the Nile, _then_ a mission should be sent up to Gondokoro or farther south. All the dangers in and obstacles to this noble work should be measured and faced, and the work so organized that a real retreat need never be made. True progress must be very slow, and you must not look for quick results. When you have done your best you must not be disappointed if you seem to have done very little. To plant a mission on a solid foundation, with the right chief at its head and the right material at his hand, will be a great work. * * * * * THE INDIANS. * * * * * REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. Your Committee on work for the Indians recognize with gratitude the greatly increased general interest in the welfare of the red race, a change to more encouraging ideas in respect to its future, and a disposition to make increased efforts for its redemption. They point to the fact that to Christianize the aborigines was a deep-seated purpose of the Pilgrim Fathers, and that the duty is greater now than ever from the wrongs they have suffered at our hands; and to the fact that the destruction of buffalo and other game has compelled a large class of Indians to seek white men’s means of support, thus bringing thousands of their children within reach, and creating conditions of successful evangelizing work among them far more favorable than they have ever been in the past three centuries.