Excerpt from The Missionary Gazetteer: Comprising a View of the Inhabitants, and a Geographical Description of the Countries and Places, Where Protestant Missionaries Have Labored Th: desk-n of this Gazetteer is to furnish a reference-book on the subject of Missions - to present the vast field to be occupied, and the land already possessed. If the reader wish to take a view of the moral condition of Degreesthe summons iii heathen lands, whose wretched ignorance and abominable superstitions call loudly for Christian sympathy, he may take a partial view by consulting such general articles as Ajh'ca, Burmah, Ceylon, China, Hindostan, Jews, North American Indians, Palestine, Persia, Siberia, South dime rice, Tartary' Thibet, Turkey, and the like; and if he sigh over these vast regions of gross moral darkness, where the prince of the power of the air holds the hundreds of millions of his subiects in cruel bondage, by consulting those names in their alpha betical place, which are printed in italic letters, at the end of each general article, he will he pointed to the day-star, aris ing in their hearts, to the places where the standard 'of the cross is erected by the Christian Soldier, and liberty pro claimed to the captives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.