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NEGLECTED ARABIA i

Missionary News and Letters
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Published Quarterly }
FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION AMONG THE FRIENDS OF
THE ARABIAN MISSION
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THE ARABIAN MISSION i
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Founded 1889, Incorporated 1894, Adopted by R. C. A. 1894, ♦
I Amalgamated with the Board of Foreign Missions, 1925
? Area occupied, Arabia, 1,000,000 square miles i
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Population
i Oman: Sultanate 500.000 Haiiramaut ....................... 150.000
v Trucial 80,000 Yemen ............................... 1,000,000 !
t Bahrain Islands. ,. . 100,000 A air .......... ........................ •1,500,000 i ;
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50,000
«-. -• Kuwait ............... llcjui ............. 1,000,000 »
r -i • lluirab Vlluytt.. ... 350,000 The Batluuiua (Coulral
i r liana ................... ... 150,000 Arabia) .......................... 500.000 <
250.000
Nejd ...................
» Tutal Population, 5,530,000 N. I
The Arabian Mission at present- has reached Oman, Bahrain Islands,
Kuwait, Basrah Vilayet, Hasa, The Nejd. S
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Report for 1925
This issue of Neglected Arabia is given over to the annual ►
report of the Arabian Mission. The report is not ordinarily
printed separately but is included in the Annual Report of the
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Board of Foreign Missions. Unfortunately the report did not
reach this country until after the Board's Report had gone to
press. It is to be regretted that this omission occurred in the I
year which marked the formal amalgamation of the Arabian
Mission with the other mission work carried on by the Board
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of Foreign Missions. We trust that the publication of the report
as one of the regular numbers of Neglected Arabia will atone !
for the unavoidable omission in the Report of the Board of \
Foreign Missions.
The report from the field contained references to a very
important development which took place during the year in the k
exploration of the interior of Oman by Rev. G. D. Van Peursem
and Dr. L. P. Dame. This event was written abou£. in the i
future tense in the report and the plans and hopes centering
around that enterprise have since become accomplished fact.
Moreover, this expedition will be specially reported in the next
issue of Neglected Arabia—perhaps we should add, if the i
manuscript arrives in time. It has seemed best, therefore, in
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view of the very complete and latest description so soon to
follow, to omit the references to this event in the annual report.
We are exceptionally fortunate to be able to compete successfully
with some of the leading journals of the day for Dr. Dame’s
exclusive story of this adventurous tour. Dr. Dame had scarcely
set foot upon American soil before interviews were sought by
several well-known magazines. We can safely promise that the
story which our next issue will contain will not be inferior in
any respect^ to any other version which is made public.—Ed.