A second party of 60 had attacked the house of the
principal native officer of the town, while a third party had
fallen upon the guard of the prison, and let loose all the
prisoners, one hundred in number, who, as soon as their irons were
knocked off, became the most desperate of all the insurgents." ...

The commissioner of the province was absent at Maulmain, but his
lady, Mrs. Burney, urged their immediate removal to the government
house. They hesitated at first, thinking the rebellion might soon
be quelled; but hearing from a rebel prisoner that the whole
province was engaged in the insurrection, and that large
reinforcements might be hourly expected to join the rebels, and
finding that the Mission premises from their situation, were likely
to be the very battleground of the contending parties,--after
seeking Divine direction, they concluded to abandon them. He
continues his narrative, "We caught up a few light articles on
which we could lay our hands, and with the native Christians, fled
as if for our lives. I visited the house once or twice after this,
and saved a few clothes and papers, but the firing being near,
rendered it hazardous to remain, and the last time I went, I found
the house had been plundered. A large part of our books, furniture
and clothes, which had remained behind were either taken away or
destroyed.

"We had been at the government house but a short time, when it was
agreed to evacuate the town and retire to the wharf. In the hurry
of our second removal, many things which we had brought from our
house, were necessarily left, to fall into the hands of the
plunderers. We soon found ourselves at the wharf,--a large wooden
building of six rooms, into which, besides the Europeans, were
huddled all the sepoys with their baggage and ours, and several
hundreds of women and children belonging to Portuguese and others,
who looked to the English for protection. Our greatest danger at
this time arose from having in one of the rooms where many were to
sleep, and all of us were continually passing, several hundred
barrels of gunpowder, to which if fire should be communicated
accidentally by ourselves, or mischievously by others, we should
all perish at once. The next danger was from the rebels, who if
they could either rush upon u