"...The word spreads and bit by bit my work becomes easier. The Tanka witch doctors fight me, but they can't refute my results."
The clinic, a white workmanlike room, is aboard the Chung Kwong or Faithful Light, the newer of the mission's two houseboats, built in a Kowloon boatyard in 1957.
The Chung Kwong has a blue hull and white two-storied superstructure housing the clinic, a living room, two bedrooms and a modern kitchen.
Her sister craft, the Proclaiming Light or Po Kwong, serves as classroom and Sunday school under the direction of the Kinkades, who handle the evangelical side of the mission. Three Chinese teachers, five Chinese general workers and several youngsters work in the mission too.
The two boats are moored by the shore on the Kowloon side of the harbor.
Miss Groce says, "A Tanka child will break into piercing screams if a white male doctor approaches, but I have an easier time because the babies instinctively trust me as they would their mothers."
"Early in 1938 I started work aboard a gospel boat on a river in Kwangtung. I took lessons in Cantonese, the South China dialect, which I now speak as easily as English."