h the humility and gratitude due. Of
those which remain I should wish to be permitted on my return from my
present expedition to circulate some in La Mancha, especially at
Manzanares and Valdepenas. The state of that province is truly horrible;
it appears peopled partly with spectres and partly with demons. There is
famine, and such famine; there is assassination, and such unnatural
assassination. There you see soldiers and robbers, ghastly lepers and
horrible and uncouth maimed and blind, exhibiting their terrible
nakedness in the sun. I was prevented last year in carrying the Gospel
amongst them. May I be more successful this.

I now beg leave to conclude my tedious letter with requesting that you
will be kind enough to send the enclosed communication to my friend in
Russia. I hope you will pardon the trouble I am giving you, but I have
no other resource, as there is no direct mode of communication between
Russia and Spain. Present my kind remembrances to dear Mr. Jowett and
other friends, and believe me to remain, Revd. and dear Sir,

Ever truly yours,

G. B.

To the Rev. A. Brandram

(_Endorsed_: recd. Oct. 7, 1839)
TANGIERS, _September_ 4, 1839.

REVD. AND DEAR SIR,--I have now been nearly one month in this place, and
should certainly have written to you before had I possessed any secure
means of despatching a letter; but there is no mail from Tangiers to any
part of the world, so that when writing one is obliged to have recourse
to the disagreeable necessity of confiding letters to individuals who
chance to be going to Gibraltar to be put into the post there, who not
unfrequently lose or forget them. One which I wrote for Spain has
already miscarried, which circumstance makes me cautious. I will now
relate the leading events which have occurred to me since my departure
from Seville, observing however that I have kept a regular journal, which
on the first opportunity I shall transmit for the satisfaction of my
friends at home. You are already aware that I had determined to carry
the Scripture in Spanish to the Christian families established on the
sea-coast of Barbary, and more especially Tangiers, the Spanish language
being in general use among them, whether Spaniards by birth or Genoese,
French or English. To enable me to do this, havin