n writes of herself and her
fellow-missionaries, Mr. and Mrs. Mason, "We meet with much
encouragement in our schools, and our number of day-scholars is now
about eighty. These, with the boarding schools, two village schools, and
about fifty persons who learn during the rainy season in the Karen
jungle, make upwards of one hundred and seventy under our instruction.
The scholars in the jungle cannot of course visit us often but a great
many have come to be examined in their lessons, and we are surprised and
delighted at the progress they have made."

Of course they had to employ, as teachers of these schools, natives,
who needed constant supervision and superintendence. Some of these
teachers were exceedingly interesting persons. Of the death of one of
them she writes, "Thah-oung continued in his school till two days before
his death, although for a long time he had been very ill. He felt, then,
that he _must_ die, and said to his scholars, 'I can do no more--God is
calling me away from you,--I go into His presence--be not dismayed.' He
was then carried to the house of his father, a few miles distant, and
there he continued exhorting and praying to the very last moment. His
widow, who is not yet fifteen, is one of the loveliest of our desert
blossoms." And afterwards in alluding to the same event, she says, "One
of our best Karen teachers came to see us, and through him we heard that
the disciples were well; that they were living in love, in the enjoyment
of religion, and had nothing to distress them, but the death of their
beloved teacher. Poor Moung Quay was obliged to turn away his face to
weep several times while answering my inquiries. Oh how they feel the
stroke that has fallen upon them. And well they may, for he was to them
a father and a guide."

"The superintendence of the food and clothing of both the boarding
schools," she afterwards writes, "together with the care of five
day-schools under native teachers, devolves wholly on me. Our
day-schools are growing every week more and more interesting. We cannot,
it is true, expect to see among them so much progress, especially in
Christianity, as our boarders make; but they are constantly gaining
religious knowledge, and will grow up with comparatively correct ideas.
They with their teachers attend worship regularly on Lord's-day. The
day-schools are entirely supported at present by the Honorable Company's
allowance, and the civil commissioner, Mr. Maingy appears mu