t what will be
their fate." "But I cannot tell a falsehood," she replied; "my religion
differs from yours; it forbids prevarication, and had you stood by me
with your knife raised, I could not have said what you suggest."

This answer so pleased the wife of the governor, who sat by, that she
ever afterwards was a firm friend to Mrs. Judson. The latter then by the
present of a beautiful opera-glass, a gift from her English friends, and
by promises of future presents, induced the governor to let her husband
remain where he was; but poor Dr. Price was confined as at first, and
was only relieved at the end of ten days, by his promising a piece of
broadcloth, and presents from Mrs. Judson.

Sometimes she was summoned before the authorities to answer the most
absurd charges, and daily she was subjected to the most harassing
annoyance, from the desire of each petty officer to get money through
their misfortunes. Notwithstanding her repulse in her application to the
queen, hardly a day passed for seven months that she did not visit some
one of the members of government, or branches of the royal family, in
order to gain their influence in behalf of the teachers, though the only
benefit was that their encouraging promises preserved her from despair.
She did however in this manner gain friends, who sometimes assisted her
with food, and who tried to destroy the impression that they were
concerned in the war.

The extortions and oppressions to which the prisoners were subject were
also indescribable. Sometimes Mrs. Judson was forbidden to have any
intercourse with them during the day; and therefore she would have two
miles to walk after dark, in returning to her house. She says, "Oh how
many, many times have I returned from that dreary prison at nine o'clock
at night, solitary and worn out with fatigue and anxiety, and thrown
myself down in that same rocking-chair you and Deacon S. provided for me
in Boston, and endeavored to invent some new scheme for the release of
the prisoners. Sometimes, for a moment or two, my thoughts would glance
toward America and my beloved friends there, out _for nearly a year and
a half, so entirely engrossed was every thought with present scenes and
sufferings, that I seldom reflected on a single occurrence of my former
life, or recollected that I had a friend in existence out of Ava_.

"You my dear brother, who know my strong attachment to my friends, and
how much pleasure I have hitherto experience