They were taken on these terms; but the captain, an Englishman, naturalized in Denmark, gave Mr.Thomas and Miss Old each a cabin, made them dine at his own table, and treated them all most kindly.
Thus they safely arrived at Calcutta; but this was only the beginning of troubles.

The goods, the sale of which was intended to maintain the mission, were entrusted to Thomas, and realized next to nothing; and Carey was indebted to the goodwill of a rich Hindoo for a miserable house in an unhealthy suburb of Calcutta, where he lodged his unfortunate family.

They had a great deal of illness, and he was able to do little but study the language and endeavour to translate the Bible into Bengalee.

Several moves made their state rather worse than better, until, in 1795, a gentleman in the Civil Service, Mr.George Udney, offered Carey the superintendence of an indigo factory of his own at Mudnabutty, where he hoped both to obtain a maintenance, and to have great opportunities of teaching the natives in his employment.
Disaster as usual followed him: the spot was unhealthy, the family had fevers, one of the children died, and the mother lost her reason from grief, so that she had to be kept under restraint for the rest of her life.

Nor was Carey a better indigo-planter than a shoe-maker; the profits of the factory dwindled, and the buildings fell into ruin; the seasons were bad, and in three years Mr.Udney found himself obliged to give up the speculation; but in the meantime, though Carey had not been able to produce much effect on the natives, he had completed the preparation of the implement to which he most trusted for his work, a translation of the New Testament; and, moreover, had been presented by good Mr.Udney with a wooden printing-press with Bengalee type.