“My last letter from brother Price mentions that the king has inquired many times about my delay, and the queen has expressed a strong desire to see Mrs. Judson in her foreign dress.  We sincerely hope her majesty’s curiosity will not be confined to dress.

“Mr. and Mrs. Wade appear to be in fine health and spirits, and I am heartily rejoiced at their arrival just at the present time.”

Rumors of a war between the British and Burmans were growing more and more prevalent, and alas, proved but too well founded.  From the very last letter written by Mrs. Judson before this most unhappy and disastrous war, we shall now make some extracts.

“Ava, February, 10, 1824.

“My Dear Parents and Sisters,

After nearly two years and a half wandering, you will be pleased to hear that I have at last arrived at home, so far as this life is concerned, and am once more quietly and happily settled with Mr. Judson.  When I retrace the scenes through which I have passed, the immense space I have traversed, and the various dangers, seen and unseen, from which I have been preserved, my heart is filled with gratitude and praise to that Being, who has at all times been my protector and marked out all my way before me.

We had a quick and pleasant passage from Calcutta to Rangoon, and in seven days after our arrival there we were on our way to this place.  Our progress up the river was slow indeed.  The season however is cool and delightful, we were preserved from dangers by day and robbers by night, and arrived in safety in six weeks.  The Irrawaddy is a noble river; we often walked through the villages on its banks, and though we never received the least insult, we always attracted universal attention.  A foreign female was a sight never before beheld, and all were anxious that their friends and relations should have a view.  Crowds followed us through the villages, and some less civilized than the others, would run some way before us, in order to have a long look as we approached them.” ...  After relating a conversation with the natives on the subject of religion, and a narrow escape from drowning; she comes to their arrival at Ava, where they had difficulties such as she had never before experienced.  Dr. Price urged their going immediately to the house he had just erected; but it was of brick, and the walls still so damp that they did not dare occupy it.  She says, “We had but one alternative, and that was to remain in the boat till they could build a small house on the piece of ground which the king gave to Mr. J. last year.  And you will hardly believe it possible, for I almost doubt my senses, that in just a fortnight from our arrival, we moved into a house built in that time, which is large enough to make us comfortable.  It is in a most delightful situation, out of the dust of the town and on the bank of the river....  Our house is in a healthy situation, is raised four feet from the ground, and consists of three small rooms and a verandah.