As he was leaving, the caique, in which himself and family, including an infant child, were going off to the steamer, upset, and the whole party narrowly escaped drowning.

His visits to Odessa, in going and coming, were the occasion, as before, of spiritual blessings to the people.

His family expenses were paid by the Board, but the printing was at the charge of the American Bible Society.

He was absent nearly three years, returning in August, 1842; and in that time carried through the press three thousand copies of the Old Testament in Hebrew-Spanish, in two volumes quarto, containing fifteen hundred pages.

The Hebrew occupied every alternate page.