The Origin of the Tuareg

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the Chief of the Staff, who had planned how they would help me. The latter was a Christian man, and he took me aside into a little room, where he knelt down and thanked God for my escape. It was a most touching experience, and when I could find words I said to him, It is an extraordinary thing that you have done. Why did you send a man who was a bandit to try and help me to get away ? His reply made everything quite clear. He said, Nobody but a bandit would dare to go into the bandit camp; we had to employ a bandit for the purpose, and his instructions were that when he got into touch with the bandits he should bargain with them, and if they would not come down in their terms, then he was to give some money to the guards and ask them to help. That was what had happened, and the guards were ready to help me to escape. I was very thankful that the time in the hands of the brigands was not longer, and I must say this before you all: that I believe that God Himself overruled things and delivered me out of the hands of the bandits. lThe PRESIDENT: Well, ladies and gentlemen, we have heard a good deal in the course of the last two or three years about people being taken by Chinese bandits, but I do not think any of us have ever listened to such a story at first hand as that which Dr. Gordon Thompson has just told. It only makes us feel more warmly towards him, if possible, than we felt before.