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Rh This "honest Englishman" was the late well-known Gen. Munro, of Ross-shire, then Col. Munro, resident at the court of his highness the Maharajah of Travancore. He was and is still known as "the good resident," and his name will long be remembered all over the south of India. He accepted entire charge of the infant mission, enlarged and strengthened it, founded schools, and endowed them with grants of land. Mr. Duthie and Mr. Lee have shown us the rice-fields which are still the property of the mission—the same that were given by the good resident. This very house was given by him, one in which he and Mrs. Munro once lived. During all his long administration he did everything to foster the mission; and not only so, but promoted whatever was for the moral and physical well-being of the people over the whole kingdom. Happily this is by no means a solitary instance of missionary and philanthropic undertakings being supported and personally assisted by the servants of Government—just such noble, disinterested Christian men as Col. Munro.

One morning, while breakfasting with Mr. Lee, he showed us a box of curious old parchments left by the resident, the title-deeds of the land and other property, written in Tamil on long slips of the palmyra leaf, all tied into little bun-