REV. HENRY MARTYN, B.D. 53 



As lie is an infidel in sentiment and practice, most of my time 

 there, while I had his company, was taken up in disputing with 

 him. Returned to Cawnpore and preached to the Artillery on 

 25th, Sunday; and July 2nd at head quarters; 9th, to 53rd; 

 16th, to Dragoons. 



23. Rain — no service. 



30. Sunday, service at head quarters. Congregations there 

 much decreased. 



6. Sunday, H.M. 53rd. 



7. Left Cawnpore for Pertahgurh to marry a couple. You 

 see that I have two king's regiments here, and one company's 

 European artillery. 



Besides all this I am considered as chaplain of all the 

 stations dependent on this, so that my parish, or rather province, 

 extends hundreds of miles. 



11. Reached Munichipore, on the Ganges, where I landed 

 and travelled about 50 miles north, in the territary of Oude, 

 through a most desolate country, all over-run with wood. As I 

 arrived two days after the day fixed for the wedding, the lady 

 would not be married. She had, however, other reasons. She had 

 promised another, who had come at her request to save her from 

 this second suitor, as far as Danapore, when she changed her 

 mind, and sent him word that he might go back again. She 

 hesitated, however, a long time before she would be married, 

 and at length gave her hand, evidently without her heart. I did 

 not hear the particulars till after the marriage, or I believe I 

 shotdd have demurred. 



13. Assembled the people of Pertabgurh at the Commanding 

 Officer's house and preached to them. About 30 officers and 

 ladies attended. 



15, Returned to my boat and went slowly up the stream. 



20. Sunday, rested this Lord's Day. As soon as the sun 

 began to go down, I went out to explain to the boatmen why I 

 had given them a day of rest. I met several Brahmins coming 

 down to perform their evening ablutions in the Granges. After 

 a great deal of discussion with them, to which the bystanders 

 seemed to attend, I gave them a summary of Grod's dealings 

 with me, particularly in reference to the true Avatar (o epxo{xevos), 

 about which they had been speaking. I told them that the 



