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on having a prize for his mourn and for his riding ability but when no one
paid any more attention to him he went off sulking.
I le entered the town leading his camel. As he passed through a small
open square he noticed a small black bov of about twelve, busy cluing
nothing. The lledouin cautiously looked around, saw no one. seized the
boy. >lipj>ed his kerchief over his head, climbed onto the camel with him
and set oil' for the desert. Hut he was no more than out of the town when
alarm was given and pursuit started. 11 is was a very good camel but it
had a double burden. Slowly some of the other cameleers gained on him
and when lie saw that he could not escape his pursuers he slowed up his
mount, slid the boy off the camel and set off post-haste, 'file pursuers
stopped when they reached the boy and returned to town with him.

PERSONALIA

F Mr. and Mrs. D. Dykstra were appointed to Rasrah. where he had
IVE missionaries returned from furlough in the autumn of 1928.
charge of the building of the new (jiris’ School. Miss Rachel Jackson
was ap|>ointcd to the Rasrah Girls’ school. Miss Ruth Jackson tu
Woman’s evangelistic work in Amaru, and Miss C ornelia Ualeuherg to
medical work in I *altrein.
Three missionaries completed their required language course and were
appointed to work. Mr. and Mrs. (ierrit I)e Jong were appointed to
Kuweit, where i\lr. l)e Jong had charge of the Roys’ school, with ithe
addition of the Men’s evangelistic work after April, 1929, and Mrs. De
Jong was inn in charge of woman's evangelistic work. Miss Swantina
De Voting was api>ointed to associate with Miss Rachel Jackson in the I
Rasrah (iiris’ school.
The second year language students—Dr. and Mrs. Harold Storm. Dr. j
Esther Rarity and Dr. M. X. Tiffany—were appointed to Rahreiu to com-1
plete their Arabic study. |
Dr. Eleanor Calverley (Mrs. E. E. Calverley) and her children re-J
turned to America on furlough in the spring of 1929, accompanied by Mr. I
and Mrs. C. D. Van Eeursem’s oldest daughter. Gertrud, who went home*
to continue her education. Rev. J. E. Moerdyk also went on furlough in
the spring, and Dr. and Mrs. W. J. Moerdyk and their family. Upon the s
Rev. Mr. Moerdyk’s departure from Amara, Rev. E. E. Calverley was •:
transferred from Kuweit to take charge of the work in Amara station, f
Mr. Theodore Essebaggers, having completed his term of three years in
the Rasrah Roys’ School, returned to America in July. •
'Die mission has lost one of its meml)ers by death during the year, '
Rev. Henry A. Rilkert, secretary of the Mission, and the men’s evan-
gelistic worker of Rasrah station. Mrs. Rilkert and her children returned
to America in May.
Two newcomers have gladdened our hearts—Conrad Keith De Jong,
horn in Kuweit in Dcccmlxtr, 1928. to Mr. and Mrs. (ierrit De Jong, and
Kol>ert Roy Storm, born to Dr. and Mrs. Harold Storm in Koriaikanal,
South India, in September, 1929.