ta to Rangoon, and in
seven days after our arrival there we were on our way to this place. Our
progress up the river was slow indeed. The season however is cool and
delightful, we were preserved from dangers by day and robbers by night,
and arrived in safety in six weeks. The Irrawaddy is a noble river; we
often walked through the villages on its banks, and though we never
received the least insult, we always attracted universal attention. A
foreign female was a sight never before beheld, and all were anxious
that their friends and relations should have a view. Crowds followed us
through the villages, and some less civilized than the others, would run
some way before us, in order to have a _long_ look as we approached
them." ... After relating a conversation with the natives on the subject
of religion, and a narrow escape from drowning; she comes to their
arrival at Ava, where they had difficulties such as she had never before
experienced. Dr. Price urged their going immediately to the house he had
just erected; but it was of brick, and the walls still so damp that they
did not dare occupy it. She says, "We had but one alternative, and that
was to remain in the boat till they could build a small house on the
piece of ground which the king gave to Mr. J. last year. And you will
hardly believe it possible, for I almost doubt my senses, that in just a
fortnight from our arrival, we moved into a house built in that time,
which is large enough to make us comfortable. It is in a most delightful
situation, out of the dust of the town and on the bank of the river....
Our house is in a healthy situation, is raised four feet from the
ground, and consists of three small rooms and a verandah.

We hardly know how we shall bear the hot season which is just
commencing, for our house is built of boards, and before night is heated
like an oven. Nothing but brick is a shelter from the heat at Ava, where
the thermometer even in the shade frequently rises to 108 degrees. We
have worship every evening in Burman, when a number of the natives
assemble, and every Sabbath Mr. Judson preaches the other side of the
river in Dr. Price's house. We feel it an inestimable privilege that
amid all our discouragements we have the language, and are able
constantly to communicate truths which can save the soul."

She then mentions that she has commenced a female school with three
little girls, two of them given her by their parents, fine children, who
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