the y year, that we learn the individual mentioned was a Karen. At that time, Mr. Judson speaking of his hopeful inquirers, says, "The second is Moung Thah-pyoo, a Karen by nation, imperfectly acquainted with the Burman language, and possessed of very ordinary abilities. He has been about us several months and we hope that his mind, though exceedingly dark and ignorant, has begun to discern the excellency of the religion of Christ." This is the individual to whom the following reminiscences relate. It is very true that he was a man 66 possessed of very ordinary abilities ;" and has therefore left no literary relics, from which to compile a bulky memoir. It is true, that he was degraded among a people that characterize themselves as "a nation most debased among the debased;" that he was a poor man, and a slave, till Mr. Judson set him free. But it is also true, that he was afterwards a faithful and successful missionary, and a distinguished instrument in the hands of God to arouse the attention of the Karen nation to Christianity. From the day. of his baptism to his death, he never intermitted his labors in preaching Christ, where the Saviour had not so much as been named, from Tavoy to Si The word Moung is a Burman title of respect applied to middle aged men. Ko is a similar title applied to elderly men. Pyoo and Byu are different modes, which have been successively adopted, of spelling the same word. Hence Moung Thah-pyoo and Ko Thah-byu designate the same man at different periods of his life.-E. THE KAREN APOSTLE: OR, MEMOIR OF KO THAH-BYU. THE FIRST KAREN CONVERT, WITH NOTICES CONCERNING HIS NATION. BY REV. FRANCIS MASON, MISSIONARY TO THE KARENS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, REVISED BY H. J. RIPLEY, PROFESSOR IN NEWTON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. EV 4935 .T35 M39 1843 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. WEST BROOKFIELD: 1156260 234 INTRODUCTORY NOTE. THE following pages were sent to me by the REV. MR. MASON, with the request that I would superintend their publication in this country. They are accordingly now sent forth, in hope that the interest which has been felt in behalf of the Karens may be deepened, and that the cause of missions to the heathen in general may be promoted, by the striking proof of the power of the gospel here exhibited. The maps which accompany the Memoir, are reduced from Rushton's Bengal Gazetteer of 1842, and are more correct than any thing else of the kind heretofore published in this country. All the interior of Tavoy and a part of Mergui, as presented in that work, were taken from an original manuscript map of MR. MASON'S. "As all the Karen stations mentioned in the missionary |