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,Area,206 EVANGELISMf. The FieldsAreaHwai uan4,200 square miles, which is visitedmore or less frequently; with a further areato the cast, which is not visited by other missions, andwhich the mission issupposed to visit, although unable atany time to go there. There are from three to five millioninhabitants, and seven hsien. and chow cities.three hsien.sPopulation, nearly orabout two million, including cities.T* h 1. Area, eight hsien. Population, about twomillion.-,. Area, about 6,000 square miles, theChenchowgreater, , I.,part being mountainous with poor roads, tewwaterways, and bad inns; the mission is actually workingin seven counties. Population, estimated at about one million and a half ; generally, the people are very poor, depending, as a rule, on agriculture.Area, the city of Canton, and three south--Canton 7 L-< ^r iw estern r hsien, Sanmng, Yanping andJloiping. Population in these three districts is not farfrom two millions.Area, Kwangsi province, but one-half ofw.the province is still unreached. Populationof the province, according to the Minehengpu Census, is6,500,000. The population surrounding most of our mainstations compared with the country, for instance, of Kwangtungprovince, is considerably less but inasmuch as the;people are scattered, and often living in villages among themountains, this makes access to them the more difficult.~ , r f Area, live hsien. Population, under oneJ. cllli tt 1 1 *Tsangchowmillion.Area, nine hsien.2. OccupationThere is at present one station at H \\aiyuan,and a new station is planned for atShowchow, both with foreign residents. It is the purposeto have a strong out-station in the charge of resident Chinesein each of the seven cities, but the beginning of such work