KWEILINFU

[s. 403] : A town in the province of Kwang-si, China; situated at the headwaters of the Kwei River, 230 miles N. W. of Canton. Station of the CMS (1899), with (1903) 2 mi ionaries (1 with his wife) and 1 dispensary. The CA also The name is some has a station at this place. times written Kwei Lin. KWEI-TSI-HSIEN A town in the province of Kiang-si, China; situated about 90 miles E. S. E.: KTret-yangr-fn LAltlynkot Station of the CIM (1878), (1903) 8 mi ionary women, 11 native workers, men and women; 8 outstations, 9 places of worsliip, 2 day schools, 1 boarding school and 246 profe ed Christians. Name written by the Society, Kweiki. of Nan-chang-fu. with KWEI-YANG-FU: A town in the province of Kwei-chau, of which it is the capital; situated LABRADOR: The easternmost portion of British America, on the Atlantic coast, comprising the region draining into the Atlantic bounded northeast and east by Hudson Strait and the Atlantic Ocean, southeast by the Strait of Belle and west by Ungava and Quebec. It is a dependency of Newfoundland and its area is about 120,000 square miles. The population is Isle, estimated (1901) at 3,947. The climate is very are rugged and forbidding. Vegetation is scanty, because of cold, and only stunted trees, shrubs, and lichens grow well there. The people are chiefly Eskimos, with go me descendants of early French adventurers. Their occupations are fishing in the summer, hunting and trapping in the winter. The important settlements are scattered along the shore of the Strait of Belle Isle, and on the ocean coast to Cape Webeck, just north of Hamilton Inlet. The Moravians are the foremost Christian cold. The coasts workers in Labrador. Their stations are, from S. to N., the following (1901), Makkovik (1896), Hope dale (1782), Nain (1771), Okak (1776), Hebron (1830) and Ramah (1871). The Labrador Medical Mi ion is also in the field. Dr. Grenfell, of the Medical Mi ion, in his hospital vacht, steams from point to point, healing the sick among the Eskimos and preaching the Gospel. Rigolet The CMS, through Mr. Peck, has accomplished good results in Labrador. Grenfell (W. T.), The Vikings of Today, 1895. ch065.xhtml l 404