Cawnpore: May 3, 1809.
I transported myself with such rapidity to this place that I had
nearly transported myself out of the world. From Dinapore to
Chunar all was well, but from Allahabad to that place I was
obliged to travel two days and nights without intermission, the
hot winds blowing like fire from a furnace. Two days after my
arrival the fever which had been kindling in my blood broke out,
and last night I fainted repeatedly. But a gracious God has
again interposed to save my life; to-day I feel well again.
Where Sabat is I do not know. I have heard nothing of him since
leaving Dinapore. Corrie is well, but it is grievous to see him
chained to a rock with a few half-dead invalids, when so many
stations--amongst others, the one I have left--are destitute....
I do not like this place at all. There is no church, not so much
as the fly of a tent; what to do I know not except to address
Lord Minto in a private letter. Mr. (Charles) Grant, who is
anxious that we should labour principally for the present among
the Europeans, ought, I think, to help us with a house. I mean
to write to Mr. Simeon about this.
I feel a little uncomfortable at being so much farther removed
from Calcutta. At Dinapore I had friends on both sides of me,
and correspondence with you was quick: here I seem cut off from
the world. Alas! how dependent is my heart upon the creature
still. I am ordered to seal up.--Yours affectionately ever,
H. MARTYN.
This is Mrs. Sherwood's description of his arrival:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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