Sketches from the Karen hills

INTRODUCTION EVERY p erson who is interested in the tri umphs of the gospel, and in the often thrilling experiences of the men who, in obedience to a Divine calI, are giving their lives to make it known to the unenlightened and bar barous peoples of the East, will welcome this small volume of missionary sketches from the pen of Rev. Dr. AIonzo Bunker, who for forty years has been an honoured and successful repre sentative in Burma of the American Baptist Missionary Union. This new volume will be es pecially welcome to those who have read with delight and profit Soo Thah, a book by the same author, published a few years since, and for which there is still a large demand by the reading public. Dr. Bunker has been empbatically a pioneer missionary. The work to which he was assigned necessitated long and dificuIt journeys over vast mountainous regions, infested by wild beast3 and untraversed by the feet of white men, to reach 5