Heroine as she was, she would not consent to let her husband break up his work to accompany her; but the solitude of her absence fell on him most severely.

She says, "He had no individual Christian with whom he could converse or unite in prayer during the six months of her absence;" but he worked on heartily, and she returned in perfect health.
In the spring of 1816, the death of their first-born child was a great shock to the father's health, which was already disordered; and he continued in a declining state all through the summer.

The Myowoon's wife, whom Mrs.Judson conveniently calls the vice-reine, was very kind to them, and took them on elephant-back to visit her country-house.

The way lay through the woods, between trees sometimes so thick that the elephants broke them down, at the mahout's word, to make way.

Thirty men in red caps, with spears and guns, formed the guard; then came the vice- reine's elephant, with a gilded howdah, where the lady sat dressed in red and white silk; then the Judsons' animal, three or four more behind with grandees, and 300 or 400 attendants followed.