Maulmain

The English residents at Tavoy, Maulmain, and Calcutta remember her with affectionate interest.

Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission Daniel C. Eddy

English had withdrawn most of their soldiers from Tavoy and quartered them at Maulmain.

Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission Daniel C. Eddy

On his arrival at Amherst Boardman conferred with the other missionaries, who, after mature deliberation, advised him to commence labors at Maulmain, about twenty-five miles from Amherst, to which place he proceeded with his little family.

Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission Daniel C. Eddy

After her arrival she was stationed at Dong-Yahn, about thirty-five miles from Maulmain.

Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission Daniel C. Eddy

I hope to get them all to Maulmain during the rains, that they may have better advantages for religious instruction, and that those who can may get a good knowledge of Burman books.

Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission Daniel C. Eddy

Their house was pillaged in this manner but a short time after they arrived at Maulmain.

Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission Daniel C. Eddy

After stopping a while at Maulmain and Singapore, the missionaries arrived at Macao in November, 1836, and here commenced immediate preparation to engage in the gospel work.

Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission Daniel C. Eddy

Mr. Osgood, who accompanied Miss Macomber from Maulmain to her field of labor, and whose duty required him to leave her there, an unprotected stranger, in the midst of a brutal, drunken community of heathen barbarians, writes as follows of her place of toil and her feelings on her arrival: --

Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission Daniel C. Eddy

In the early part of 1828 it was deemed advisable for Mr. Boardman to remove to Tavoy, about one hundred and fifty miles south of Maulmain; and, in accordance with certain instructions from the Board, he took up his residence there in April.

Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission Daniel C. Eddy

After remaining awhile at Amherst and Maulmain, Mr. Comstock and wife proceeded to the province of Arracan, which was to be the field of their labors; and on the 26th of February, 1835, it being the Sabbath, they performed their first missionary duty in Arracan.

Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission Daniel C. Eddy