hour of separation from you at Port Louis! To accomplish both these objects—to do away, from this time, the unfrequency of communication between us, and to supply the aforesaid narrative—although I find myself as intensely occupied as ever, and the demands on every effort in my power to make as urgent as ever—I have determined to write to you a letter of some length, on the first Monday of every month, and forward the same whenever opportunity for it occcurs. While dear sister Judson remains in this