The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1931, Page 11

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

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Another Letter from China.

Foreign Language Department,
Chung-Hwa University,
Wu-chang, China, October 26, 1930.
Rey. L. Meyer,
Concordia Publishing House,
St. Louis, Mo.
My Dear Sir: —

You will be greatly surprised when you receive
this letter, which I should have written to you be-
fore had I not been ignorant of your address.
I wonder whether remember me or not; but, on the
contrary, I have never forgotten you. For you had
done me so much when you were in China, and
I am ever of opinion that all that I am or hope to
be I owe to you. O my dear sir, I am very fond of
you. Rev. Mr. Lee has come back again. Why don’t
you? I wish I were a bird to fly to you.

You know that I was not dismissed from Lu-
theran school, but left on my own way during your
absence on furlough. Thenceforth I entered Boone
College and graduated there. Now I am a Senior
of Chung-Hwa University, learning politics and
economics. After this course I intend to enter Val-
paraiso University, Valparaiso, Ind., to learn law,
which I am interested in. Is it convenient for you
to post me a copy of regulations of this school ?

. As to my English standing, I think I can do as
well as those Chinese who have been educated in
America. I am now twenty-three years of age, un-
married, healthy, but little short-sighted. Please,
tell me if there is some condition in which I cannot
come.

Next mail you will find enclosed a photograph
of mine which I am going to take.

Please give my love to Mrs. Meyer and Mrs. Carl
Gaette, formerly Miss Brauer.

Remain,
Yours obediently,
Tu Yane Dao.

How Some People in Australia Live.

Incredible as it may seem to many of our
readers, it is nevertheless true that there are still
to be found in Central Australia aborigines who
have never seen a white man. They still live as
their ancestors have. lived for possibly thousands
of years before them.. The recent Mackay Aerial
Survey Expedition, which established a base at

Ilbilla in those central desert regions, has been able
to give an account of the mode of living of these
swarthy children of the wilderness. The tribes re-
ferred to are the Pintos and the Eumos. They
differ in speech from the Aruntas among whom the
Hermannsburg Mission is established. The repre-
sentative of the Adelaide Advertiser who accom-
panied the expedition offers the following descrip-
tion: —

“They were amazed when they saw a white man
with a train of camels. Through Hawk Eye, a man
of the neighboring Luritcha tribe, who spoke En-
glish and was attached to the camp staff, Bob, the
white bushman, who prepared the camp, told them
of the coming of two great birds, from the bellies

A Native Australian.

of which more white men would come. Bob gave
them sugar and flour, two luxuries of which they
had been ignorant, and when the aeroplanes ar-
rived, they were torn between the impulse to run
away because of fear and the urge to remain because
of hunger. ... All were naked except for a belt
of a few strands of string twisted from human hair
tied around their waists and necks.... Of neces-
sity both sexes hunt, for game is scarce in all their
territory, but the task of collecting vegetable food
is left to the women and children. All the vegetable
food is of the poorest quality, the most plentiful
being the seed of a grass. One day’s collecting of
this seed may yield about a breakfast cupful to each

gleaner. The seeds are placed in a pitcht, or wooden

dish, and moistened with water. When the lubras
return to camp in the evening, they take a slab of

rock, naturally flat, place some of the moistened ra

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