The account given her by Mr. Judson of his sufferings since she had seen him was almost too dreadful to repeat.  Dragged from the prison, and stripped of their clothing, they were driven under a broiling sun, over the hot sand and gravel until their naked feet were all one wound, and they earnestly longed for death to put an end to their tortures.  When night came on, finding that one of the prisoners had dropped dead, and that the others were utterly unable to walk, their driver had halted till the next morning, and then conveyed them the remainder of the distance in carts.  On arriving and seeing the dilapidated condition of the prison, they confidently thought they had been brought here for execution, and tried to prepare themselves to meet a dreadful and perhaps lingering death.  From this apprehension they were relieved by seeing preparations made to repair the prison.

Mrs. Judson had brought from Ava all the money she could command, secreted about her person.  And she records her thankfulness to her Heavenly Father that she never suffered from want of money, though frequently from want of provisions.  Hitherto her health and that of her children had been good.  But now commenced her personal, bodily sufferings.  One of the little Burman girls whom she had adopted, and whom she had named Mary Hasseltine, was attacked on the morning after her arrival with small-pox.  She had been Mrs. Judson’s only assistant in the care of her infant.  But now she required all the time that could be spared from Mr. Judson, whose mangled feet rendered him utterly unable to move.  Mrs. Judson’s whole time was spent in going back and forth from the prison to the house with her little Maria in her arms.  Knowing that the other children must have the disease, she inoculated both, and those of the jailer, all of whom had it lightly except her poor babe, with whom the inoculation did not take, and who had it the natural way.  Before this she had been a healthy child but it was more than three months before she recovered from the dreadful disorder.

The beneficial effects of inoculation in the case of the jailer’s children, caused Mrs. Judson to be called upon to perform the operation upon all the children in the village.  Mr. Judson gradually recovered, and found his situation much more comfortable than at Ava.  But Mrs. Judson, overcome by watchings, fatigue, miserable food, and still more miserable lodgings, was attacked by one of the disorders of the country; and though much debilitated, was obliged to set off in a cart for Ava to procure medicines and suitable food.  While there, her disorder increased so fearfully in violence, that she gave up all hope of recovery, and was only anxious to return and die near the prison.  By the use of laudanum she so far checked the disease, that she was able to get back to Oung-pen-la, but in such a state that the cook whom she had left to supply her place, and who came to help her out of the wretched cart in which she