Fisk and Bird were the only missionaries at Jerusalem, Mr.King having gone to Jaffa.

While successfully employed in selling the Scriptures to Armenian pilgrims in the city, they were apprehended, at the instigation of the Latins, and brought before Moslem judges on the strange charge of distributing books that were neither Mohammedan, Jewish, nor Christian.

Holding up a copy of Genesis, the judge declared it to be among the unchristian books denounced by the Latins.

Meanwhile their rooms were searched, and a crier was sent out into the city, forbidding all persons to receive their books, and ordering all that had been received to be delivered up.

Their papers were examined, and some of them retained by the government.
In a few days, however, through the prompt interference of the English Consul at Jaffa, their papers were all restored, and they were set at liberty.