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that a man who has not superior mental endowments will yet answer very well for a missionary. experience proves that the finest intellect, the most delicate tact the broadest judgment are essential in the missionary work."

I don't know when I have met a man more after my own heart than Dr. Long & I bade him goodbye with as much warmth as though he had been an old friend.

-What a splendid sail we had up the Bosphorus I I know no parallel to its shores for a union of the cunning handiwork of the Creator & his image. It recalls the Hudson, but our beautiful home river here finds its shores repeated on a far grander scale.

Palaces, the finest that adorn any shores, are here;-villages nestle under the hills in lines almost unbroken the whole length of the Bosphorus. Here Medea met (?) Jason coming back from Colchus-here Simeon Stylites (whom I have "asked after'' so often in the East, lived on his column;-through the whole length of this matchless strait swam Io in her disguise- from whence, its name. No object on its shores attracted me, however, like Roberts College building on its beautiful hill behind the tower of Mahomet the Second. A beacon light for this whole land is this, that it does one's heart good to see. I would not forget the lovely vista that we looked back upon as we neared the limitless horizon of the Black Sea-nor our pleasant evening on the deck, under the stars, the witchery of whose hours lacked but "the rose-leaf" only. Nor would I fail to be grateful for our balmy night's rest upon the waveless sea-nor the lady who slept with her lap dog, nor she who smoked cigars from an amber mouthpiece, on the deck.

April 30, 1870

Morning found us at Wilna [?Varna?] & the present writing is done upon the cars, en route for Rontschook [?]-over grassy plains that smell of spring. Just before darkness reach Rontschuk-find Rev. Mr. Wanless at the station-Dr. Long having written him of our coming. Though I have never seen him before we are at once acquainted for he is, like my brother, a graduate of Beloit College, & says he "knows O. A." His wife is a graduate of my own Alma Matre & formerly was a teacher there. Of "Ada Kinsman" I have often heard through the Fishes & Miss Clark. Mr. W. tells us his wife has made all her preparations to have us spend several days with them-that she has not seen an American lady in a year or more during wh. time she has been almost constantly ill & that she was delighted beyond measure at the prospect of our arrival. She has tired herself so much getting ready to receive us that she was not able to come to the station-& now here we are for ten minutes only-the steamer being already at the wharf. I was so sorry & sympathized so much in her disappointment, &, withal, should have been [............ ] to spend a little time & see the "shady side" of missionary life-of wh. I saw in the sad & anxious face of Mr. W. here was a thorough specimen-that if