Mr.King's friends in Paris and in some other European cities, therefore, advanced the needful funds to enable him to start at once, and he landed at Malta early in November.

A few days later, the celebrated Joseph Wolff also arrived, for the purpose of going with Mr.Fisk to Jerusalem.

The three started January 3, 1823, to go by way of Alexandria, Cairo, and the desert.

During the three weeks spent in Egypt they ascended the Nile as far as Thebes, distributing Bibles and tracts at most of the villages along the river.

They were able to communicate religious truths in several languages, and sold more than six hundred copies of the Bible, or parts of it.