AUSTRALASIAN MISSION IN SOUTH AMERICA.
It was in 1899 that the first band of young workers sailed from the Antipodes for South America, under the auspices of the Australasian South American Mission. Since then they have been joined by others. Up to the present they have labored chiefly among Spanish-speaking people in the Argentine Republic, and, after attempts in various directions, a settlement has been made in Campana, a town sixty miles north of Buenos Aires, and there a flourishing school and mission are being carried on by Mr. and Mrs. Cook and Mr. Grimson. Much has been done in circulating the Scriptures in conjunction with the American Bible Society. One of the pioneers, Mr. Allan, has, however, felt from the beginning that his work would be among the descendants of the renowned Inca Indians, those famous races who held a great part of the South American continent, with a considerable degree of the arts of civilization, when it was acquired by the Spanish conquerors four centuries ago. There are 3,500,000 of these pure Indians, who all speak the Quechua language. Last year Messrs. Allan, Wilson, and Guerrero made a journey through Bolivia, extending over six months, carrying Bibles on pack-mules, and selling a considerable number to Spaniards, at the same time spying out the land in order to commence a mission among the long-neglected Incas.—London Christian.