them with manuscript reading. Out | colonists reside here in houses of naof school, with the assistance of my tive construction, for the purpose of colonist interpreter, I make a transla- trade. Here a slave factory has recenttion into their language. This I carry ly been established, and is pursuing its into school, and require them without business with an energy which threatassistance to turn it into English. If ens rapidly to depopulate this region. the translation is correct, they will gen- As this establishment is within eleven erally find but little difficulty in read- miles of the town in which I reside, from ing it. If the translation is incorrect, its influence, though perhaps not aimed or defective, by proper illustrations and directly against our enterprize, I have explanations of the idea they will be been hindered, no doubt, in trying to able, commonly, to point out the error get a native house completed. The or defect. By this means we mutually head men on whom I rely for the buildinstruct each other. One of the second ing of the house, find it so much easier class, a boy about twelve or thirteen to get money by selling slaves than by years of age, is, we hope, converted work, that their attention is very much to God. taken up with that. Edina, the place where we now reside, is a pleasantly situated town, having the ocean on its western boundary, and on the eastern a broad expanse of water, formed by the union of the St. John's, Mechlin, and Benson rivers. The two latter empty into the first, and, passing along between Basa Cove and Edina, are poured into the sea. This town contains not far from three hundred inhabitants, a large portion of whom are As it respects health, we have all been highly favored. Br. and sister Clarke have had no attack of fever, which might be considered dangerous. And much of the time, they say, their health is as good as it was in America. My own health has been better within six months, than it had been for the same length of time, since I first had the fe ver. Relative position of the settlements in Li- beginning to turn their attention to beria. In the old colony, Monrovia is the principal town. It is situated near the mouth of the Mesurado river, about 70 miles northwest from Edina. It once had a somewhat extensive and lucrative trade with the natives; but, owing to the wars, carried on principally to supply slavers with victims, their trade with the natives is, at present, very small. Some of the merchants have recently given their attention to agriculture. Up Stockton creek, which communicates with the Mesurado and the St. Paul's, about five miles from Monrovia, is the town of New Georgia, inhabited by recaptured natives. Three miles further, on the St. Paul's river, is the town of Caldwell, containing probably three or four hundred inhabitants. Twelve miles further up the St. Paul's, and about twenty miles from Monrovia, Millsburg is situated, -about three hundred inhabitants. The three last-mentioned towns are principally agricultural. Coming down the coast from Monrovia, we next come to Marshall, a small settlement, about 35 miles N. W. of Edina, near the mouth of the Junk river. The inhabitants give their attention to farming. The sea port of Little Basa is a native salt-town on the sea-coast, about twenty miles N. W. of Edina. A few agriculture. The mission-house stands Domestic. DESIGNATION AND DEPARTURE OF MISSION ARIES. The Rev. James O. Mason and wife, of Granville, N. Y., and Miss Elizabeth Boynton, of Haverhill, Ms., missionaries to the Creeks, left New-York city on the 12th of September last, for the Indian Territory, via Pittsburg and Cincinnati, in company with Mr. and Mrs. Kellam, of the same mission. Mr. Mason is a graduate of Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution. The Rev. Josiah Goddard, of Wendell, Ms.. and Mrs. Eliza Ann Abbott Goddard, of Holden, Ms., Rev. Coroden H. Slafter, of Norwich, Vt., and Mrs. Maria Maine Slafter, of Oxford, N. Y., together with Mrs. H. M. Mason, of the mission to the Karens, sailed from this port, in the barque Apthorp, Capt. Gay, on Thursday, the 6th ult., for Maulmein, Burmah, and Singapore. A public religious service was held on the Tuesday evening previous, in the Baptist meeting-house in Charles-st., when the missionaries were set apart to their work, and the instructions of the Board to Mr. Goddard were read. Mr. Slafter was prevented from being present by severe indisposition. the only periodical devoted to the missions of the General Convention, is to be deeply regreted. There is a close correspondence between the extent to which missionary intelligence is diffused, and the amount of organized effort to sustain the missions. Those will contribute to their support most promptly and liberally, who, other things equal, know best their condition and claims. To communicate such knowledge and to excite to missionary effort, is the direct aim and tendency of the Missionary Magazine. It is the official organ of communication from the Board and their missions-their general agent, to report their proceedings, to present their wants and the condition and pros pects of the heathen, and to acknowledge the aid which they have received. Its representations are authentic and full; and none can receive and duly entertain it, and not feel a new and generous impulse to help the cause which it advocates. It is from these considerations that the publishers are the more especially solicitous to extend the circulation of the Magazine at the present time. Our readers are aware, and we would that all our brethren were aware, that the operations of our missions are threatened with speedy embarrassment. A crisis is near at hand. Let the present rate of contributing to the treasury continue but a short time longer, and results the most disastrous will follow. The work which now presses most Order of Exercises, with appropriate hymns: Prayer, by the Rev. Mr. Swaim, late of Granville, Ohio; Reading of the Scriptures, by the Rev. Mr. Stow, of this city; Reading of the In-urgently upon us, is at home. The whole structions, by Mr. Peck; Consecrating Prayer, by the Rev. Dr. Bolles; Address, by the Rev. Dr. Sharp, pastor of the church in Charles-st.; Concluding Prayer, by the Rev. Mr. Neale, pastor of the 1st Baptist church in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Goddard are designated to the Chinese mission, to reside for the present at Singapore. Mr. and Mrs. Slafter are appointed to the mission to Siam, and will proceed immediately to Bangkok. church should be aroused and moved, as with one impulse, to give of their substance and their prayers. Our contributions must be greatly increased, and the number of contributors greatly multiplied. To effect this object, information must be more widely disseminated, the necessities of the missions made known to the members of all the churches; and it must be felt by all that all should contribute, and that none is too poor or too distant to afford some The missionaries carried out with them valu-aid. able supplies, including one thousand reams of paper for the Burman mission, and a printingpress for the mission to Siam. NOTICE OF THE PUBLISHERS. The publishers of the Baptist Missionary Magazine submit to its patrons the importance of procuring for it a more extensive circulation. At present, the number of copies distributed in New-England, average scarcely one to fifty of the members of our churches; in other large sections of our country, the proportion is less than one to a hundred; in others still, it is one to five hundred members. In view of these facts alone, will not the friends and supporters of the missions of the Board, make immediate personal efforts to enlarge the circulation of the Magazine. In places where there is no local agency, will they not depute some suitable person to fulfil that service, and give him their subscription and address? Will not the pastors of churches, especially, present to their respective congregations, at the Monthly Concert, or other fit opportunity, the design and character of this work, and the importance of its being taken by all who would become familiarly acquainted with the progress, the necessities, and the prospects of the missions, and who can be induced So extremely disproportionate a patronage of to do worthily for their support. Burmah. JOURNAL OF MR. KINCAID AT MERGUI. Revisit to a Karen village-BaptismsPassage of the Tenasserim mountains -A tropical storm. March 23, 1838. Left home this morning to visit a Karen village, about twenty-five miles distant. We were overtaken on the way by a severe storm of rain, accompanied with the most terrific thunder. Night came on, and the storm increased; but, aided by almost incessant flashes of lightning, and having no place of shelter, we pushed forward, and at 11 o'clock reached our destined village. 24. Between forty and fifty assembled at 7 o'clock in the morning for worship, after which three men went off to give information in two other villages of my arrival. Just at dark they returned, followed by eighteen others, male and female. Some of them were Christians, and others had come to hear the gospel. This is the village where I visited last month, and baptized ten. My congregation was between seventy and eighty. After sermon several came forward and asked for baptism. 25. Lord's-day. After the morning services, we resumed the examination of candidates for baptism. Four were finally received and baptized. An hour and a half was then spent in prayer, occasionally singing two or three verses. After a sermon in the evening, I broke bread for the church. The whole number of communicants was thirty-six. 28. During the past three days we have had a continued series of meetings for the benefit of the church and of those who are enquiring after truth. A few who never heard before, have come and listened. Made all arrangements this evening for a journey over the mountains to the Tenasserim river. 29. After a march of six hours, we came near the foot of the mountains, and put up for the night. Here are two families, living in solitude. In the houses are twenty-three souls, old and young, and I find that four of them I baptized last month. They gave me a most cordial welcome, spread a mat in an open verandah, brought water for washing and drinking-dressed a fowl for my dinner, and did every thing that kindness and christian courtesy could dictate. At candle-lighting all assembled, and I read the third chapter of John, and expounded for nearly two hours. To me it was a delightful season. There was a melody and sweetness in their singing, which perhaps is rarely ever heard. 30. The sun was hardly up, when rice was cooked and every thing ready for breakfast. All assembled for worship. In these two houses are sixteen who believe in Christ and pray, though only four have as yet been baptized. I parted from them reluctantly. We set off in Indian file, for more than three hours wending our way along the bed of a mountain stream, sometimes only two or three feet deep. On either side the mountains rose up to a great height. In many places the stream is filled with brush and fallen trees, over which we had to climb; though this was not always practicable, and we were obliged to creep on our hands and feet for fifteen or twenty yards together. After leaving this stream, or rather getting to the head of it, we ascended the high range of mounta which stretch along from north to s between the Tenasserim and the ocean. | gales of wind, altogether formed a I was obliged to lie down on the ground scene most impressively sublime. several times, completely exhausted, before I got to the top. The mountains are irregular, precipitous, and covered with a dense forest. We travelled about four hours amidst these wild ragged mountains, often having no other path than that made by wild elephants and tigers. This is their own undisputed territory, and if one may judge by their tracks and paths, they are very numerous. Monkeys too range these wild regions in countless numbers. There is one kind very large, and without tails. The Karens tell me they are bold and savage, often attacking travellers, if not more than two together. When surrounded by great numbers of these animals, urging each other forward to an attack, by the most deafening yells, the only security is in setting fires, of which they, like other wild animals, are afraid. For ten or twelve days past we have had thunder storms every evening, preceded by heat that is nearly suffocating. The thunder is so loud and so constant, that it is difficult making a person hear only a few feet distant. About 4 o'clock the clouds began to gather in dense black masses; and, as the Karens tell me the storms are much more severe in these mountains than on the plains below, we concluded to halt for the night. Every effort was made to provide a shelter from the rapidly gathering storm. I was so weary it was impossible to render any assistance. We had a very comfortable shelter in less than an hour. Before our dinner was prepared, the storm came down, and except on one or two occasions, I never saw such a storm before. The whole atmosphere appeared to be a living mass of fire. There was a continued roar of thunder, mingled, almost every breath, with sharp, deafening peals, like the discharge of heavy artillery. The rain too was poured out in torrents, from which our leaves afforded us but a partial refuge. The moral grandeur of the scene, however, banished all thought of inconvenience and discomfort. Time passed unnoted; hours appeared to be minutes; there was no room for levity, and no room for sadness. The huge masses of clouds, hurrying on, and rolling up and down the sides of lofty and ragged mountains, the blazing atmosphere, the incessant roll of thunder, and the torrents of rain, accompanied with strong Villages on the Tenasserim river—Additional baptisms. 31. In the morning found two of my people suffering with a burning fever. One of them, a fine young lad, after making two or three efforts sunk down upon the ground, quite unable to walk. I had slight fever all night, but was very well in the morning. We set off at an early hour, and after eight hours' march reached the Tenasserim, 140 or 150 miles above Mergai. Our journey to-day, as yesterday, has been amidst the wildest scenes of nature, most of the way without the least evidence that any human being had been there before us. I suppose one half of the distance we walked in the channel of a stream, having, some part of the way, a most welcome sandy bottom, with only a few inches of water; then again, rocky and precipitous, with occasional deep basins, taking us nearly to the chin in water. Tracks of the rhinoceros, elephant, tiger, deer, wild hog and monkey, are every where seen. Their hard-beaten and frequent paths give one a fearful idea of their number. There is here no spot of barren earth. Vegetation is every where seen, in all its wildest luxuriance. We are all quite happy to get over the mountains to this pleasant little village. Our reception has been so cordial that we quite forget the hardships of the past three days. This village, or rather hamlet, stands on the west side of the river, on high level ground, with an extremely fertile soil. The river is about 300 yards wide. The chief has visited me two or three times in Mergui, and for a month past has been expecting my arrival. Some time since he built a zayat, in which himself and neighbors meet on the Sabbath and worship the Christian's God. There are five houses, having thirty-two or thirtythree souls. But two or three miles distant, are other hamlets, sitting in the shades of death, and either enemies or ignorant of God. At early candle-lighting all came to hear the gospel. I preached from "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up," &c. April 1. This is the Lord's-day. Met very early, to spend a little time in prayer and singing; after which |