ALMORA

[s. 34] : Capital of the Kumaun district, United Provinces, India, situated among the Him a lay as, 5,337 feet above the sea, near the frontier of Tibet. Climate temperate, making it a resort for invalids during the hot and rainy seasons. Population of the district, 493,599 Hindus, Muslims, Europe ans. Language, Hin- (Kumauni dialect). Mi ion station LMS (1850), with 10 mi ionaries and 48 native workers, men and women. It has 10 outstations, a college, a hospital, 6 dispensaries, a leper asylum, a high school and 18 common schools. di ALVAY: Village near Point Pedro on the N. side of the Jaffna peninsula, Ceylon occupied as a mi ion station by the in 1880. It now; WMS has 1 mi ionary and 23 native workers, men and women, with 6 outstations and 8 primary schools. 35