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The Old Mission House at Muscat ;'

mission in Arabia. That we were so long in making full use of
this fund was because the conditions were new and complicated,
and we wished to have a good experimental knowledge of them
before committing them and our successors to permanent locations.
Our experience with houses in Muscat has been a varied one.
When I first reached here (in 1891) I occupied during my two
weeks* stay rooms over a native storehouse—the same from which
Bishop French was carried to his grave a month or two before.
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’* .: •’ : When Peter Zwemer came down to occupy this station later on,
he hired a native house, one of the best in Muscat, only to be com-i
polled to move out to make room for a French consul. Again he
hired a house and made a few necessary repairs, but before the
year was up the roof fell in—fortunately while he was away. I do
not remember how many changes were eventually made before the
last, which took him outside the walls and to our present location.
An illustration of this house, as it appeared at first, is shown on

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