It was decided that Rice should go home and appeal for their support to the American Baptists, and in this he thoroughly succeeded, while the Judsons, after sailing for Mauritius, where they found poor Mrs.Newell recently dead, made their way back to Madras, and there found a vessel bound for Rangoon.

It was a crazy old craft, with a Malay crew, no one but the captain able to speak a word of English.

The voyage was full of disaster.

A good European nurse, who had been engaged to go with Mrs.Judson, fell on the floor and died suddenly, even while the ship was getting under weigh, too late to supply her place.

Mrs.Judson became dangerously ill, and the vessel was driven into a perilous strait between the Great and Little Andaman Islands, where the captain was not only out of his bearings, but believed that, if he were driven ashore, the whole ship's company would be eaten by the cannibal islanders.