Mr.Fisk's account of the closing scene was beautiful and touching in its simplicity.1 1 See _Missionary Herald_ for 1822, p.

218.
Mr.Fisk went to Cairo soon after the death of his associate, intending to proceed to Jerusalem through the desert.

But hearing that the Rev.Daniel Temple had arrived at Malta as a fellow-laborer, he deemed it prudent to confer with him, before venturing upon the then very disturbed state of Palestine.

He arrived at Malta on the 13th of April.

How natural, after the privations of his journeys by land and sea, the seclusion from Christian society, the scenes of plague and massacre he had witnessed, and especially after the sickness and death of his beloved colleague, that he should feel the need of Christian friends, with whom to renew his strength.
Mr.Temple and his wife had embarked at Boston on the 2d of January, 1822.