enture it as my
opinion, that there were no thieves at all, but that it was
treachery altogether. You will be surprised to hear that
Captain Cockrell and myself start to-morrow on the same road
as before. I trust in God alone for protection, as we have no
guards at all. If I ever reach Exeter I shall not fail to call
on Miss Groves; but after what has happened who can say, "He
shall do this."

"We take no baggage of any description, being fully aware of
the danger and impracticability of so doing; so that if we are
again attacked, we shall be able to gallop for our lives. Now,
adieu, my dear Sir. I will write from Constantinople if I
reach it; in the mean time excuse this hurried scrawl, and
believe me, ever

"Yours very sincerely,
"W. HULL."
"_Mr. A. N. Groves._"

In consequence of the receipt of this intelligence, Major T. sent off
Aga Menas to Mousul, to treat about the liberation of the captives,
and we are anxiously waiting the result.

My dear brother Pfander and myself having come to the conclusion, that
with so large a school, and so many objects of one kind and the other
as there are here requiring attention, it would be impossible for me
to leave this and go with him into the mountains; this led to the
further determination on his part to return to Shushee next year,
having first spent a few months at Ispahan, to complete his knowledge
of Persian; and I of course was prepared to be left quite alone, but
still my heart was fully sustained with the confident hope that the
Lord would not only do what was right, but exceedingly abundant above
all I could ask. On all sides nothing but silence prevailed:--three
packets of letters had been lost between Constantinople and this, and
one between Tabreez and this, and all the letters from India had been
detained, by the Arabs on the river being at war with the Pasha for
four or five months. Therefore I knew nothing of the movements of any
of my dear friends, and all was left to conjecture; sometimes, when
faith was in full exercise, I felt assured that the Lord was doing all
well; at others, I hardly knew what to think. I had written to my very
dear friends in Petersburgh, Dr. W. and Miss K. to come if possible
and as soon as possible; but their having left Petersburgh doubtless
prevented their receiving my lette