of discretion and good sense, though no superiority in understanding; so that I fear nothing from indiscretion, and have sent a servant of my own with him, and hope the Lord will be his defence. In a letter, however, which Mr. Corrie addressed soon after this to Lieutenant (now Captain) Peevor of H. M. 17th foot, he states that Abdool “was obliged to retreat privately,” from Lucknow, the rage of the Mahomedans was so great against him. Yet it appears that “his father, mother, two brothers and two nephews, had all professed their readiness to embrace the gospel,” and that the nephews returned with Abdool to Cawnpore. [83] From the period of their first arrival at Vizagapatam, the Missionaries seem to have been in the habit of conducting public worship according to the ritual of the church of England; and proceeded to translate the English liturgy into the Teloogoo language. [84] Missionary Register, vol. i. p. 261-266. CHAPTER XI. AGRA. Mr. Corrie and his party reached Agra on the 18th of April 1813. There he was made acquainted with the death of Mr. Martyn. In a letter to Mr. Sherer, and with reference to that event, Mr. C. writes:-- “We arrived here in good health, and found your letter containing the affecting intelligence of Martyn’s death:--to us afflictive, to him happy beyond expression. I thought of writing immediately, but could find nothing beyond lamentations to express; lamentations for us, not for him. He was meet for the “inheritance of the saints in light,”--my master is taken away from me, O for a double portion of his spirit! The work of printing and distributing the scriptures, will henceforth go on more slowly. It is impossible to have so lively an impression of the importance of supplying the written word, where people have not intercourse with the spiritually needy. You all feel for the poor English, because you now and then talk with them, and have demonstration of their ignorance on eternal things. Thus those who enter among the heathen have a demonstration on the subject, which constrains them to pity them, and to exclaim, ‘O that they had but a Bible!’”