Identifier: cu31924029346875 (find matches)
Title: History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Tracy, Joseph, 1798?-1850 Peck, Solomon, 1800-1874 Mudge, Enoch, 1776-1850 Cutter, William, 1801-1867 Mack, Enoch, 1806-1881
Subjects: Missions Missions
Publisher: Worcester : Spooner & Howland
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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tions of Scripture and tracts in Bengali and Chinese. In one excursion,in October, Mr. Kincaid gave away 5,000 tracts and books, and in Decem-ber 4,000 tracts, and 400 copies of the Psalms and History of Christ. Onthe 1st of January, 1837, Mr. Webb came.with Mrs. Webb to Ava, for therecovery of her heakh, and brought with him 3,000,000 pages of tracts. On the 27th of January, Mr. Kincaid left Ava for Sadiya in Asam, afterhaving with great difficulty obtained permission to travel through the north-ern provinces. He visited Tha-bea-mau, Katha, Let-pan-zen, Kyouk-gyih,Monheim, Myoung-ben-lha, Bamau, and many other towns and villages, andreached Mogaung, 350 miles from Ava, in twenty-two days. Beyond Mo-gaung lies the great Hukong valley, in which are the celebrated quarriesof serpentine and amber, which last is used for the manufacture of idolsStill farther northwest is a wilderness, beyond which lies Sadiya in Asam.The Shyans are numerous beyond Bamau, and the wilderness and the sum- 25
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Q^ Kyoiii Myojjngowlj DMoicsobo °;)° -^ rt Mengwon Pagodt Sketch of the COUNTRY noithof AVA S3 Miles to an Lucli 22 596* BAPTIST GENERAL CONVENTION. mils of many of the mountains are inhabited by a singular and distinct racecalled Kakhyens. The journal contains valuable notices of the inhabit-ants, scenery, and geology of the country. At Mogaung, Mr. Kincaid found himself unable to procure men or pro-visions, and turned his face again toward Ava. The civil war having bro-ken out, the whole country was overrun with banditti, by whom he was re-peatedly taken prisoner and robbed. He narrowly escaped with his life,and arrived in Ava, in February, in a state of extreme destitution. Dur-ing the subsequent scenes of violence and blood which the missionarieswere called to witness, but little missionary work was done: the members,of the mission were for a time indebted to the interposition of the BritishEesident for their own safety; the new king, though personally kind, for-bade all prosecu

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