TEXAS (2,236, including 493 coloured), the largest of the United States of America, in the extreme SW., fronts the Gulf of Mexico for 400 m. between Mexico (W.) and Louisiana (E.); has an area more than twice that of the British Isles, exhibiting a great variety of soil from rich alluvial valleys and pastoral prairies to arid deserts of sand in the S. Climate in the S. is semi-tropical, in the N. colder and drier.

It must be remembered that, as Roosevelt remarks (97) these Indians, under the influence of the Moravian missionaries, had been "transformed in one generation from a restless, idle, blood-thirsty people of hunters arid fishers into an orderly, thrifty, industrious folk; believing with all their hearts the Christian religion.

The ambassadors were placed on the left hand of the imperial throne, arid the Kathayan officers on the right.

If so, good-bye grim doubt and fear: Adieu to arid sand.