have been caught.  The inhabitants are coming in with white flags and occupying their houses.  The bazaar is open, and the work of repairs is going on.

“Yesterday morning the Diana arrived with a reinforcement of European soldiers; and to-day I have come on board, expecting to proceed to Maulmain immediately.  My present plan is, if my brethren approve, to return with my family, and resume our missionary labors as before.  The native members of our church, now scattered, will probably come into town as soon as they hear of our return.  Of the boarding scholars, all are with us except three Karens.

“My letter is already protracted to so great a length, that I can only add that our preservation and deliverance from such imminent danger, should awaken in our hearts the warmest gratitude to our Heavenly Father, and the most unwavering confidence in his kind care; and that the foregoing account should revive and deepen the impression made by previous events in the history of this mission, that we stand in need of the continual and fervent prayers of Christians in America, not only for our preservation, but for divine guidance in all our affairs.

“I remain, yours,

“G.D.  Boardman

“P.S. Saturday Morning, August 22d.—­I have just arrived at Maulmain, and have the happiness to find my family and missionary friends in comfortable health.  Praised be the Lord for his goodness.

“Aug. 29th.—­After much deliberation, it is thought best that I should leave my family here, till affairs are more settled....  I expect to embark for Tavoy to-morrow morning.  May the spirit of all grace go with me!”

This is a “plain unvarnished” account of the terrible scene through which the missionaries were so wonderfully preserved, but to understand more fully their imminent peril we should know, that the town, at the time of the revolt, was almost defenceless.  The English civil and military chief absent; the officer in command on his death-bed; no English troops in the town, and but about a hundred sepoys, who though trained to British modes of warfare are by no means equal in skill or valor to British troops; and the chief engineer disabled by sickness;—­the Tavoyans had well chosen the time of their attack, and they were sufficiently numerous to have carried all their plans into execution; but the result, like that of all conflicts between civilized and barbarous men, shows how greatly superior a few troops, well disciplined, are to the most numerous bodies of men, unacquainted with the art of war.