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MISSIONARY LIFE IN ASEANTEE. 
CHAPTER XIV. 
EBENEZEK. 
In the joy of our hearts, and in deep thankfulness for His 
mercy and grace in looking on our afflictions, we gave to 
our nest in the wood the name which signifies, "The 
Lord has helped us." Drawbacks and disagreeables were 
not wanting, but our position was now endurable ; we 
were well supplied with food by the king, though, through 
the many who had to share it, our own was still but a 
meagre portion. Our attendants had become civil and 
obliging, and the visits of the grandees impressed them 
with an idea of our importance. 
We will here describe one of these visits, which occurred 
on the 20th of May. Its hero was no less a person than 
Bosom muru, a chamberlain, who on his entrance desired 
our people to retire, and produced my confiscated watch, 
with a piece of embroidered cloth, seeming to think the 
two had some connection; perhaps on account of the 
price-ticket attached to the cloth. His object was just to 
get an explanation of the watch, not as one might have 
hoped, to return the article to myself. 
With the usual vicissitudes attendant on a condition 
like ours, in the hands of a barbarous sovereign, we shortly 
after this suffered a sudden diminution in our supplies, 
our soldiers declaring that the purse was empty. This 
being reported to his majesty, twenty-seven dollars were 
forwarded in gold dust, and soon after he paid us another 
visit; the object of which appeared to be simply a friendly 
