Frequent, convulsive Yexings, or Hickets.

The Templeton heads in the Cloncurry ranges[.]

My head is exploding from all this rubbish.

These missionaries were good people of whose devotion America can be proud. Some months later under Boxer mob-violence they were driven out on to the Gobi Desert. But the Tao Tai gave them protection which saw them safely across the desert to the Russian frontier, though with much hardship.