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PERSONALIA

All the members of the Arabian Mission have greatly enjoyed the
brief visits from Mrs. E. E. Olcott, who returned from a recent visit
to India through the Persian Gulf. She called at each one of the
stations, as also at Baghdad. Grateful references are made to the
pleasure received from llie.se brief visits of this unfailing friend of the
Arabian Mission.

Several cases of serious illness have given great concern to the Arabian
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Mission during the recent months. They were all of missionaries resid­
ing in Kuweit. Rev. E. E. Calverley had an attack of typhoid fever,
which happily was not of a very serious type and from which he is
reported to be recovering.
Miss Jennie A. Scardefield has had a long period of illness. The last
report from Kuweit indicated that she was holding her own.
Miss Grace O. Strang has also been seriously ill. With a view to
more favorable conditions she has gone to Madanapalle in the Arcot
Mission where she is reported as improving.
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Rev. and Mrs. G. D. Van Peursem and Mrs. Sharon J. Thoms have
arrived at their stations, Maskat and Baghdad, after short and satis­
factory journeys traveling from the Mediterranean to their destination
by the short route across the desert.
Dr. and Mrs. John Van Ess plan to leave Basrah about the middle
of March and after making visits in Palestine and elsewhere en route,
they will arrive in the United States early in June.

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