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PERSONALIA

Rev. and Mrs. James Cauliue and Rev. and Mrs. E. K. Calverley
and their children sailed from New York on November 30. 1923 on
their return to Arabia after their furloughs. They expect to reach
their stations on the Persian Gulf about the first week in January.

Dr. and Mrs. Cantine will return to Baghdad as the representa­
tives of our Reformed Church in the newly formed United Mission
in Mesopotamia. He will doubtless retain an active, though some­
what honorary, relationship with the Arabian Mission of which he
was also the first missionary.

Rev. John Van Ess made a very interesting tour during the past
summer to Baghdad and Mosul.

Dr. Louis P. Dame is making use of his new Ford car presented
by friends in America in visits to villages in the Bahrein Islands,
accompanied by Rev. G. J. Pennings. They make weekly evan­
gelistic and medical visits on Wednesdays to the surrounding vil­
lages. Dr. Dame has recently received another urgent retjuest from
the Sultan of the Nejd to visit his capital in the desert, Riadh, and
other important cities in the interior, Aneyza, Bereidah and possibly
also the very important city of Hail.

A new overland mail route has recently been established bv motor
caravan from Baghdad to Haifa on the Mediterranean. By thi>
route letters are coming from Basrah to New York in three weeks
instead of five weeks' by the ordinary sea route.

Miss Jennie A. Scardefield and Dr. and Mrs. Win. J. Moerdyk
arrived in Arabia early in November. Upon arrival Miss Scardefield
found a Ford car already set up and ready to run which was pre­
sented by the Harlem Collegiate Church of which she is the mission,
ary representative.