QUETTA

[s. 630] : A town in Balu chi stan, India, situated about 190 miles N.W. of Shikarpur, in the Northwest Frontier Province, India, with which Station of the CMS it is connected by railwaj’’. (1886), with 4 mi ionaries, three of them with their wives, 8 native workers, 1 place of worship, Station 1 hospital, and 42 profe ed Christians. of the CEZ (1895), with (1903) 2 women mi ionaries, 10 native workers, 3 day schools, 1 boarding school, 1 hospital, and 50 Zenana pupils. QUEZAL TEN AN GO A town in Guatemala, Central America, situated about 125 miles N. W. of Guatemala city, nearly destroyed by an earthquake in 1902, and it is not now a mi ionary residence. Station of the PN (1898), with 1 mi ionary and his wife and 1 outstation.: (tnallflcatlons 613 QUICHUA LANGUAGE: A South American Loanda. language spoken by various tribes of Indians in the western and nortliwestern part of the con The name is applied by the Indians of tinent. Peru to any mountaineers, and at the time of the Spanish conquest the dominant race in Peru being Quichua Indians, the Jesuit mi ionaries gave the name to the Indian language. Quichua is still spoken in parts of Peru distant from the It is found also with variant dialects coast. among the Indians of Ecuador, Colombia, and, It is written perhaps, in Bolivia and Argentina. with Roman letters. 631