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This possibly amused the Nawab, who took no notice of their letters; but it was a different matter when a small English force sailed up the Hugli, passed Chandernagore unopposed by the French, captured the fort of Hugli, burnt Hugli and Bandel towns, and ravaged both banks of the river down to Calcutta. The French were in an awkward position.
The third division, between Busrah, or Bazorah, at the bottom of the Persian gulf, and India proper, contains the kingdoms of Ormuz, Guadel, and Sinde, with part of Persia, and Cambaya, on which they have the fort of Bandel, and the island of Diu.
In January the English sailed up the Hugli, passed Chandernagore contemptuously without a salute, burned the Moorish towns of Hugli and Bandel, ravaged the banks of the river, and retired to Calcutta. Up to this the Nawab had not condescended to notice the English; now, in a moment of timidity, he asked the intervention of the French as mediators.
But there was no available land there for an Englishman's cultivation. From Bandel he wrote home these impressions of Anglo-Indian life and missionary duty: "26th Dec. 1793. A missionary must be one of the companions and equals of the people to whom he is sent, and many dangers and temptations will be in his way. One or two pieces of advice I may venture to give.
The statue was designed by Bandel. The hero was to stand uplifting a sword in his right hand, and looking towards the Rhine. The height of the statue was to be eighty feet from the base to the point of the sword, and was to stand on a circular Gothic temple, ninety feet high, and supported by oak trees as columns.
At last, on the 29th July 1794, Fuller, the secretary; Pearce, the beloved personal friend of Carey; Ryland in Bristol; and the congregation at Leicester, received the journals of the voyage and letters which told of the first six weeks' experience at Balasore, in Calcutta, Bandel, and Nuddea, just before Carey knew the worst of their pecuniary position. The committee at once met.
Even had he received the whole of his £75, as he really did in one way or other, what was that for such a family as his at the beginning of their undertaking? The expense of living at all in Calcutta drove the whole party thirty miles up the river to Bandel, an old Portuguese suburb of the Hoogli factory.
Carey's two missionary principles Destitute in Calcutta Bandel and Nuddea Applies in vain to be under-superintendent of the Botanic Garden Housed by a native usurer Translation and preaching work in Calcutta Secures a grant of waste land at Hasnabad Estimate of the Bengali language, and appeal to the Society to work in Asia and Africa rather than in America The Udny family Carey's summary of his first year's experience Superintends the indigo factory of Mudnabati Indigo and the East India Company's monopolies Carey's first nearly fatal sickness Death of his child and chronic madness of his wife Formation of first Baptist church in India Early progress of Bible translation Sanskrit studies; the Mahabarata The wooden printing-press set up at Mudnabati His educational ideal; school-work The medical mission Lord Wellesley Carey seeks a mission centre among the Bhooteas Describes his first sight of a Sati Projects a mission settlement at Kidderpore.
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