For one whole year she became, what I call for want of a better name,
an itinerant teacher of ambulance work, in places out of reach of
doctors in New Zealand. She taught the people how to deal with accidents
caused by the falling of trees, cuts with the axe, or kicks from vicious
horses, all of which are of frequent occurrence in the Bush. Again, she
taught the miners how to make use of surrounding materials in case of an
injury: how to bandage, and how to make a stretcher for moving a wounded
person from one place to another with such things as were handy, viz.,
with two poles and a man's coat, the poles to be placed through the arms
and the coat itself to be buttoned securely over the poles. Another
thing she taught in these out-of-the-way places was how to deal with
burns and foreign matter in the eye or ear--also accidents of frequent
occurrence.

Many interesting and exciting scenes could be related of this part of
her life, but I hesitate to do more than show her training and fitness
for the work she is now doing.

It is a work we all want done, and would gladly take part in had we the
qualifications for it. It is a work which, if well and honestly done,
will deserve the best thanks of England and of the whole civilized
world. She may not live to tell us, but her life will not have been
lived in vain if she prove successful in getting at the truth of what is
done _By order of the Czar_, and presenting it to the Czar himself.

We cannot travel with her bodily; we cannot hunger or perish with cold
in her company; we cannot fight with dogs and wolves as she must do; we
cannot, with her, go into the dens of immorality and fever; but we can
determine upon some way of helping her, and I think we shall only be too
thankful to join her friends who by giving of their means are