Twenty years after she spoke of it as one of the most painful moments of her life.
At first it had been proposed that Mr.Boardman and Sarah should accompany Mrs.Judson on her return, but it was thought better that he should spend a little more time on his studies, and Ann Judson therefore sailed in 1823, with Mr.and Mrs.Wade as her companions.
In the meantime Judson himself had been going on with his work at Rangoon, among many troubles.
Another accusation was drawn up by the lamas against Shwaygnong, and the Viceroy, on reading it, pronounced him worthy of death; but before he could be arrested, he took boat, came down to the mission-house with his family, obtained a supply of tracts and portions of Scripture, and then secretly fled up the river to a town named Shway-doung, where he began to argue and distribute the tracts.

So little regular communication was there between different places in Burmah, that this could be done with comparative safety; but the accusation and his flight created so much alarm at Rangoon, that Mr.Judson had to shut up the zayat, and only assemble his converts in the mission-house.

They suffered another loss in Moung Thaahlah, their second convert, who died of cholera, after nineteen hours' illness.

He had seven months before married a young Christian woman, this being the first Burmese Christian wedding; and as he was a youth of much promise and good education, he was a serious loss to the mission.

All this time Mr.Judson was alone, until the arrival of Jonathan Price, who had wisely qualified himself to act as a physician, and no sooner did a report of his skill reach Ava, than the King sent for him; and as he had no time to learn the language, Judson went with him as interpreter.