Her moans at night rent the heart of her sick mother, and it is scarcely possible to imagine how either survived.

By this time, the English troops were so far advancing that the King was reduced to negotiate, and, being in need of an interpreter, he sent an order for Mr.Judson's release; but as his wife was not named in it, she had great difficulty in effecting her departure, and half-way through the journey a guard came down and carried him off to Ava without her.

Arriving next day, she found him in prison, but under orders to embark in a little boat and go at once to the camp at Maloun.

She hastened to prepare all that was needful for his comfort, but all was stolen except a mattress, pillow, and one blanket.

The boat had no awning, and was so crowded that there was no room to lie down for the three days and three nights of alternate scorching heat and heavy dew; there was no food but a bag of refuse-rice, and the banks on either side of the Irrawaddy were bordered with glittering white sand, which in sunlight emitted a metallic glare intolerable to the eyes, and heat like a burning furnace.