The Rev.George B.Whiting and wife and Dr.and Mrs.Dodge, were to occupy the station thus vacated, aided by Miss Betsey Tilden.

Dr.Dodge accompanied Mr.Thomson on his return, and assisted him in removing his babe and his effects to Beirut; and on the 22d of October he and Mr.Whiting were on their way with their families to Jerusalem.
Early in the winter, Dr.Dodge was called to Beirut to prescribe for Mrs.Bird, who was dangerously sick.

Mr.Nicholayson returned with him to Jerusalem, arriving there on the 3d of January, 1835, cold, wet, and exhausted with fatigue, having traveled on horseback nearly seventeen hours the last day.

The peril of such an exposure in that climate was not realized at the time.

Both were soon taken sick, and Dr.Dodge rapidly sunk, though a physician from one of the western States of America arrived at the critical moment, and remained with him to the last.