f vessels declined taking passengers,
without an exorbitant price, she decided not to take passage to America.
On mentioning her circumstances to a lady in Calcutta, the latter
strongly recommended the advantages of a voyage to England, on account
of the superior accommodations, medical advice, and female passengers in
English ships. A pious captain offered to take her for about one third
of the price demanded for a voyage to America, provided she would share
a cabin with three children, who were going to England an offer which
she immediately accepted. The father of the children subsequently
arrived in Calcutta, and generously paid the whole price of the cabin,
which enabled her to go without any expense to the Board.

She writes: "If the pain in my side is entirely removed while on my
passage to Europe, I shall return to India in the same ship, and proceed
immediately to Rangoon. But if not I shall go over to America, and spend
one winter in my dear native country.

"Ardently as I desire to see my beloved friends in America, I cannot
prevail on myself to be any longer from Rangoon than is absolutely
necessary for the preservation of my life. I have had a severe struggle
relative to my immediate return to Rangoon instead of going to England.
But I did not venture to go contrary to the convictions of reason, to
the opinion of an eminent and skilful physician, and the repeated
injunctions of Mr. Judson.

"My last letter from Rangoon was dated Oct. 26. Moung Shwa-gnong had
been accused before the viceroy, and had disappeared. Mr. Judson had
felt much anxiety and distress on his account, fearing he had done
something in the way of retraction, which prevented his visiting him.
But in a fortnight he was agreeably surprised at seeing him enter. He
informed Mr. J. that having been accused, he had thought it the wisest
way to keep out of sight; that he had put all his family on board a
boat, and was going up the country among the sect of heretics with whom
he once associated, and had now come to take leave, obtain tracts,
gospels, &c. Mr. Judson furnished him with what was necessary, and bid
him God speed. He will no doubt do much good among that class of people,
for it is impossible for him to be any time with his friends without
conversing on the subject of religion. Moung Ing had returned, as
steadfast and as much devoted to the cause as ever. He and Moung Shwa-ba
spend every evening in reading the Scriptures, and finding