Papua As It Is

MISS Townsen, of the Anglican Mis sion, who has now returned from Papua, tells the following story in the ABM Review:— One night one of our nurses travelled many miles to help a Papuan woman in great agony and in danger of losing her life, performed a delicate operation with great skill and totally inadequate instru ments, saved the mother’s life, though not the babe’s, and finally left the village, having given the husband minute instruc tions to bring his wife, by canoe, to the mission station, in the cool of the after noon.

Five o’clock and no patient: only a wondering nurse. At 7 o’clock the hus band struggled up the hill, carrying a large bunch of bananas.

“Where is your wife?”

“Oh, there was no room for her and the bananas on the canoe. The bananas are heavy. She is walking.”

She did five miles, collapsed when she arrived, but was up and about in a few days.

Four Lutheran missionaries from New Guinea, Revs. H. Hannemann, A. Frerichs, J. Kuder and F. Doering, reached Brisbane in February. They had been stationed in the distant inland, in the Wahgai, Chimbu and Mt. Hagen areas. They intend to re turn to the United States.