Leaving Memikan, the travellers removed to Darawe, the village
described on page 21. Here they could scarcely get permission to
pitch their tent, or procure provision for themselves and horses;
yet even in such a place, the manifestation of Christian love was
not without fruit, though many bitterly opposed them to the last.
The neighboring villages wondered at the missionaries going there at
all, and still more at their being able to remain.
At Keyat, the kindness of the people, and pleasant intercourse with
them, were all the more grateful for the contrast with what had gone
before. Here Miss Fiske met with that kind reception from Mar
Shimon, then passing through the place, described on page 159, while
the tent literally flowed with milk and honey furnished by the
villagers, whom he had charged to take good care of their visitors.
On the following Sabbath, Yonan preached to a congregation of about
two hundred, at Sanawar, where forty families of refugees from Saat
were spending the summer. When Miss Fiske and Miss Rice visited
their camp, they found a number of temporary huts enclosing a
circle, where the domestic labors of spinning, weaving, and cooking
were actively going on.
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