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Explorations, heroic endeavors of missionaries and their great
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Communications from the field, encouraging incidents and pictorial
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General Notes on Africa, the Chinese and Indians will be continued.
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Transcriber’s Notes:
Obvious printer’s punctuation errors and omissions corrected.
Changed “Tongaloo” to “Tougaloo” on page 15. (By Mrs. M. E. H.
Pope, Tougaloo)
Missing “C” added in the Salem entry on page 26. (for Washington,
D.C.)
Missing “u” added in the Salisbury entry on page 26. (Salisbury.
“G. B. B.,”)
Missing “s” added in the Westport entry on page 27. (Westport.
Cong. Ch.)
Missing “s” added in the Crown Point entry on page 27. (Miss A.
McDonald)
“CAMES” changed to “GAMES” on page 31. (SPORTS AND GAMES)