He was placed in a shed, guarded all day, and left without food, till Moung Ing found him out in the evening, and replied to his questions, that the Mamma Judson and the child were well; yet there was something about his manner that was unsatisfactory, and Judson, thinking it over, became terribly uneasy, and in the morning, being sent for by the governor of the jail, obtained permission to go to his own house.
At the door he saw a fat, half-naked Burmese woman with a child in her arms, so dark with dirt that it never occurred to him that it could be his own; and entering, he found, lying across the foot of the bed, his wife, ghastly white and emaciated, her hair all cut away, and her whole appearance that of a corpse.

She woke as he knelt down by her in despair! She had been ill all this time with a horrible spotted fever.
The day she had fallen ill, the Burmese woman had offered to take charge of little Maria, and the Bengalee cook had attended on her.

Dr.Price was released from prison and had cut off her hair, bled, and blistered her, but she could hardly move when the tidings came of her husband being in the town, and she had sent Moung Ing to him.

The husband and wife were at last together again, and Dr.Price was sent to conduct the treaty at the English camp.
As soon as Sir Archibald Campbell heard of the sufferings of the Judsons, he demanded them as well as the English subjects; but the King was aware that they were not English, and would not let them go.

This attempt at a treaty failed; but its failure, and the alarm consequent upon a report of the advance of the English, led to Mr.Judson's being sent off, almost by force, with two officials, to promise a ransom if Ava were spared.