w they would meet our brave and world-honored
countrywoman, Miss Shattuck, isolated, surrounded by want and misery,
holding her fort alone, and that something from our hands could go to
strengthen hers, emptied by the needs of thousands every day. If they
might have still gone to Van, and reached our other heroic, capable and
accomplished countrywoman, Dr. Grace Kimball, it would have been an
added joy. But the way was long, almost to Ararat; the mountains high
and the snows deep; and more than all it seemed that the superb
management of her own grand work made help there less needed than at
many other less fortunate points. It seemed remarkable that the two
expeditions separating at Aintab, on the sixth day of April, with no
trace of each other between, should have met at Harpoot on April 29,
within three hours of each other; and that when the city turned out _en
masse_, with its missionaries in the lead, to meet and welcome Dr.
Hubbell and the Red Cross, that far away in the rear, through masses of
people from housetop to street, modestly waited the expedition from
Oorfa.

This expedition containing as it did two leading men, again divided,
taking between them, as their separate reports show, charges of the
relief of two hundred villages of the Harpoot vilayet, and later on
Diarbekir, and that by their active provision and distribution of
farming implements and cattle and the raising of the hopes and courage
of the people, they succeeded in securing the harvest and saving the
grain crops of those magnificent valleys.

While this was in progress, a dispatch came to me at Constantinople,
from Dr. Shepard, of Aintab, whose tireless hands had done the work of a
score of men, saying that fevers, both typhoid and typhus, of a most
virulent nature, had broken out in Arabkir, two or three days north of
Harpoot; could I send doctors and help? Passing the word on to Dr.
Hubbell, at Harpoot, the prompt and courageous action was taken by him
which his report will name, but never fully show. It is something to say
that from