As I turned from thoughts of the past, and looked on the animating scene around us, the contrast almost overcome me." This was in 1851.

In October of the following year, Dr.and Mrs.
Perkins, going to meet Mr.and Mrs.Crane, and Sarah Stoddard, on their way from Trebizond, experienced a severe affliction in the death of their only surviving daughter, a very interesting girl.

The journey was expected to be of advantage to the health of Mrs.
Perkins and to their two children, Judith and Henry; and it was due to the new-comers that some one, acquainted with the language and country, should aid them through the long and tedious route from Erzroom.

After a ride of thirty miles, they were unexpectedly exposed to a pestilential atmosphere at Khoy, where they spent the night.

All went well with them until they had crossed the plain of Khoy, and the mountain beyond, and passed their last resting-place, when the beloved daughter showed signs of cholera.