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Judson, at his own earnest entreaty, was allowed the reversion of its cage, and there, to his great joy, Moung Ing brought him his MS. translation of part of the Burmese Bible, which he had kept in his pillow at Ava till it was torn away by the jailors on his removal. The faithful Ing, thinking only to secure a relic of his master, had picked up the pillow and secured the treasure.
The actual baptism, performed by going down into the water like Philip with the Ethiopian, could hardly have been carried out by a man in his state; but Moung Ing, who had been admitted to the pastorate, touched at Moulmein, on a mission to Mergui, and undertook the baptisms. The Karens carried Mr.
Moung San invited them to enter it, and all four went in and sat down. "Now, Moung San," began Jim Dent "You listen to me. You know the ruby-mines well, don't you?" "Yes," replied Moung San. "Do much trade with the miners for many years." "Do you know a man named Saya Chone?" "Yes," said the trader. "Know him. Don't like him." "Who is he with now?" "With U Saw, the man they call the Ruby King."
They suffered another loss in Moung Thaahlah, their second convert, who died of cholera, after nineteen hours' illness. He had seven months before married a young Christian woman, this being the first Burmese Christian wedding; and as he was a youth of much promise and good education, he was a serious loss to the mission. All this time Mr.
Moung Zah, the former minister, recognized Judson kindly, and after a time the King took notice of him: "You in black, what are you, a medical man too?" "Not a medical man, but a teacher of religion, your Majesty." After a few questions about his religion the King proceeded to ask whether any Burmese had embraced it. "Not here," diplomatically said Judson. "Are there any in Rangoon?"
The fellow got his release a week before I left Maulmain for good, and the very next day Moung Gway was found, down by the quays, dead as a haddock, with a wound between the shoulder-blades as neat as if he'd been measured for it. Oh, I could tell you a story or two about those fellows!" "It's easily explained, at any rate," Mr. Molesworth suggested, "why you see a dark-skinned man in your dream."
They were taken to the palace, and were explaining their wishes to the Prime Minister, Moung Zah, when it was announced that "the golden foot was about to advance," and he had to hasten to attend the Emperor.
They found that such as had lived in the yard of the mission had been subjected to a petty official persecution, which had made them fly to the woods; but that the good Mya- day-men had refused to hear an accusation brought against Moung Shwaygnong by the lamas and officials of the village, who had him before the tribunal, accusing him of trying "to turn the priest's rice-pot bottom upwards."
There they all knelt down and prayed, and then Moung Ing baptized the nineteen new disciples, while the pastor lay pale and happy, and his wife watched him with her heart full of the last baptism, when it had been he who poured the water and spoke the words. Mr.
They climbed at once to the deck of the hnau, where Moung San shook hands with them very heartily. When he heard Jack's name he smiled and showed all his teeth, stained black with betel-chewing. "Me know your father," he said, and shook Jack's hand again. "Very good man, very good man." Amidships there was a large cabin, roofed with plaited cane, built up on the hnau.
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