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established they gladly send their children to them, though this alone would be a subject of great thankfulness to God, but of direct conversion, the number is as great as could well be expected, considering that it is only within the last five years, that any ordained English Missionary has been in the presidency of Bengal, and that before that time nothing was even attempted by any members of our Church, except Mr. Martyn and Mr. Corrie. Of the candidates for confirmation, whom I mentioned above, eighty were converted heathens, and there were many whose distant residences made it impossible for them to attend, and many more who were desirous to obtain the rite, whom their pastors did not think as yet sufficiently instructed.

Great part of our Liturgy has been translated, and well translated too, into Hindoostanee, and I thought it fortunate that the Confirmation Service as well as the Communion is found in the present compendium. The language is grave and sonorous, and as its turn of expression, like that of all other eastern tongues, is scriptural, it suits extremely well the majestic simplicity of our Prayer-Book. With all this employment, and all these hopes before me, you will easily believe I am not idle, and cannot be unhappy. Yet you will not, I am sure, suspect me of forgetting all I have left behind; and there are many little circumstances of almost daily occurrence which give occasion to very sadly pleasing recollections.

On another occasion while we were sitting at the tent door under the shade of a noble peepul-tree, looking out with some anxiety over the wide sultry plain for the rear of our caravan, Lushington called out, as the long necks reared themselves amid some brushwood, "the camels are coming, oho!" I believe he thought from my silence that I did not understand the allusion, but in fact I could not answer. He had sent me to Moreton drawing-room and my

dear Mary's piano-forte, and I was, I believe, a long time in getting back to the neighbourhood of the Ganges and Jumna. I have written a very long letter, but I do not think I shall have tired either of you. I meant to have enclosed one to my mother, but I have really no time now, and will write to her at a more advanced stage of my journey, and when I have something more to say. I know you will shew her this letter; giving my best love to her and to Heber. I can hardly say how often and how much I long to see you all, and how constantly you are all in my thoughts and

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Your letter of the 10th November has just reached me, having been sent from Delhi. I trust that, long ere this, you will have been convinced, by my Journal, that though there is a certain degree of irritability in the native mind in the northern and western provinces of Hindostan, there is nothing like revolt, and that I am running no sort of danger. To set your mind, however, more at ease, I have had a conversation with who, though not insensible to the fact that there are fewer troops than is advisable in these provinces (if troops were to be had) does not feel any apprehension of mischief occurring at present. Had any of the great native powers been prepared to strike, they would have been on horseback before now, and as soon as possible after the rains. And though there may be, here and there, a refractory Zemindar

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on the frontier, no general or formidable rising can be now looked for, unless, which God forbid, some great disaster shall happen to our arms in the east. Rajpootana is said to be again quiet, and the transfer of Mhow to the Bombay army, by nearly doubling Sir David Ochterlony's disposable force, will enable him probably to keep it so.

I am not going near the district where Mr. Shore was wounded, and that too is said to be now again tranquil. Rohilcund is as quiet as it is ever likely to be, and of that district I have only a very few short marches to traverse, and in its quietest part; nor, so far as I can learn, am I at all an unpopular person there, or likely to be molested, even if some partial mischief should occur. Believe me, I will be prudent, and incur no needless danger. God bless and keep you for ever!

REGINALD CALCUTTA.

TO MRS. R. HEBER.

DEAREST EMILY,

Boitpoor, Rohilcund, Dec. 10, 1824.

I send you two good packets of Journal, by which you will see I have had a very interesting journey through Kemaoon. My visit to Almorah has, I hope, not been useless, or one which I ought to regret, notwithstanding the delay it has occasioned me. The reasons which led me to go there (which indeed, as you are aware, has always been a part of my plan,) you will see detailed in my Journal. I have learned some facts which, if my life is spared, may open a door for sending missionaries and copies of the Scriptures into Tartary, and even China. I have also ascertained, from actual experience, that if our next arrival in the north of India falls

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at the proper season, neither the fatigue nor the inconveniences, though certainly neither of them are trifling, need deter you from enjoying the pleasure which I have received, and which, had you been with me, would have been greatly increased.

For children and women-servants there is no mode of conveyance but small hammocks, slung on a bamboo, and each carried by two men, whilst you would have to encounter the actual bodily fatigue of sitting on a poney up and down steep hills for three or four hours together. Still these difficulties are not much greater than are encountered by travellers in Norway, and the remoter parts of Scotland.

I have at last received your letters, directed to Meerut, and that of Dr. Abel. They contain a very blended tissue of evil and good, for which I hardly know whether to lament or be grateful.

The letters you enclose from home have also excited very painful feelings.

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Nor am I able to contemplate without great concern and anxiety, my poor mother, at her time of life, seeking out a new residence. God I hope will support and strengthen her natural cheerful spirits and activity of mind.

REGINALD CALCUTTA.

In order to shew you that I conceal nothing from you, I add, that a letter from Mr. Halhed, just received, apologizes for not being able to receive me at his house, in consequence of his being obliged to march against a small body of armed plunderers near the forest. Such little tumults are, as I have told you, not unfrequent in Rohilcund; but this is several days' march out of my way, and even were it not, my escort is too strong to encourage them to

meddle with me. I mention it lest you should be alarmed by hearing any thing of it from other quarters, and because such matters are, at Calcutta, often exaggerated.

MY DEAREST EMILY,

TO MRS. R. HEBER.

Mowah, (Jyepoor Territory,) Jan. 22, 1825.

I take the opportunity of the return of Mr. Mac Sweyn's suwarrs to Agra, to send you my Journal, as continued down to this morning. My next letter must be from Jyepoor, where, if it please God, I hope to arrive on the 28th. If you sail to Bombay, that will be the last letter which you are likely to receive from me during your stay in Bengal.

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I was very sorry to hear of poor .'s death, and cannot help thinking that the confined air of her quarters in the fort, added to her own regret for the foolish step she had taken in leaving you, hastened it. I now much regret that I did not, as I once thought of doing, call on her, in one of my morning rides, to bid her good bye before I left Calcutta ; she would have taken it kindly, but I was in a hurry, and not over well-pleased with her at the time.

I have just received a letter from Colonel Raper, the Resident at the Rannee's court, who sent me an additional escort of cavalry for my passage through the Jyepoor territory. I had, previously, no apprehensions, but you will be glad to hear that I am well guarded. The Rannee is now again on perfect good terms with the English, Sir David Ochterlony is residing in the palace with her, and she has sent a vakeel and a guard of twenty-five horsemen to guide and guard me through her dominions. She has, in fact,

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