ind, it
will be the hope and prospect of making a very handsome profit. Yet they
are so short-sighted and, like all their countrymen, so utterly
unacquainted with the rudiments of business, that it is by no means
improbable that they, one and all, take no notice of this proposal, which
is however the only plan which at present appears available for promoting
the _general_ circulation of the Scriptures.

Dr. Usoz, the gentleman who is at present assisting me in the editing of
the work in question, is very anxious to become a member and a
correspondent of the Bible Society. His letter on that subject I
translated and transmitted previous to my last visit to England, but he
has never received an answer. I beg leave to say that I am extremely
desirous that his request be granted, and that he be written to without
delay; and I must moreover beg to be furnished with a written or printed
authority to establish a branch Bible Society in Madrid, and to nominate
Dr. Usoz as secretary.

That part of my last letter, where I stated my wish of making a tour
through the Asturias, Galicia, and the Biscays, as soon as the work
should be completed, does not seem to have been clearly understood. I
did not intend to devote myself entirely to _the wild people_, but to
visit the villages and towns as well as the remote and secluded glens. I
intended to take letters of introduction to some of the most respectable
people of Oviedo, of Corunna, of Lugo, of Vigo, Pontevedro, Barbastro,
Bilboa, etc., and to establish depots of Bibles in those towns; but in my
way I intended to visit the secret and secluded spots amongst the rugged
hills and mountains, and to talk to the people, after my manner, of
Christ and to explain to them the nature of His book, and to place that
book in the hands of those whom I should deem capable of deriving benefit
from it. True it is that such a journey would be attended with
considerable danger, and very possibly the fate of St. Stephen might
befall the adventurer; but does the man deserve the name of a follower of
Christ who would shrink from danger of any kind in the cause of Him whom
he calls his Master? 'He who loses his life for My sake, shall save it,'
are words which the Lord Himself uttered, and words surely fraught with
consolation to every one engaged in propagating His Gospel in savage and
barbarian lands.

About a fortnight since I purchased another horse, for these animals are
at present exceedin