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[s. 223] : A town in the district of the same name, Bengal, India, 360 miles from CalIt is a hill station (7,000 feet) and cutta by rail. sanitarium, which is very popular. Population (1891), 14,100, of whom 8,600 are Hindus and It is a place of many lan3,700 Buddhists. guages, Nepali and the Bhutia here meeting the Bengali and Hindi. The climate is good, but the rainfall is somewhat exce ive. Station of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mi ions (1870), with 40 outstations, 5 mi ionaries, men and women; 73 native workers, men and women; 14 Sunday schools, 58 common schools, a dispensary and 306 profe ing Christians. Also station of the Church of Scotland Woman’s Mi ionary Society (1886), with 4 mi ionary women, 9 native women helpers, 2 elementary schools, 1 high school, 1 industrial school and 38 Zenana DARSI: A town in the Kistna district, MaIndia, situated about 25 miles N. W. of Ongole. Station of the ABMU (1894), but not occupied (1901), the work there bemg under care of the mi ionaries residing at Ongole and the statistics being summed with those of Ongole. The native Christian communicants at Darsi and its dependencies number about 3,250. A DASKA: town in the district of Sialkot, Punjab, India, situated about 50 miles N. of Lahore. Population somewhat over 5,000. Station of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mi ions (1857), with (1900) 44 outstations, 1 mi ionary and his wife, 24 native workers, 1 chapel, 20 elementary schools, 1 high school, 1 theological seminary and 133 profe ing Christians. 223