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lxxxvi Soon after the departure of Mr. Gutzlaff for China, Mr. Tomlin, and Mr. Abell, a missionary from America, arrived, and prosecuted the work until the former returned to Singapore, and the latter was under the necessity of seeking the restoration of health by a voyage to a more temperate climate.

In 1831, the Directors of the London Missionary Society appointed two missionaries to Siam; but the afflictive bereavements by death which the missionaries in Bengal experienced, rendering it necessary to reinforce the latter, their destination was altered, and no subsequent appointment was made until June, 1833, when two missionaries were sent out by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, to commence a permanent mission in this important part of south-eastern Asia.

Since the termination of the first voyage from Siam to China, and the second in the ship Lord Amherst, Mr. Gutzlaff has made a third visit to the northern ports of China, and it is ardently to be hoped that his enterprise and perseverance will be ultimately, in the course of Divine Providence, rewarded by the privilege of entering the country in his proper character,—as a christian missionary,—and proclaiming