SOME ACCOUNT

OF

A MISSION,

UNDERTAKEN WITH A VIEW TO THE PROPAGATION

OF

CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,

AND THE

DISTRIBUTION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES,

IN ARABIA

AND ON

THE BANKS OF THE EUPHRATES,

IN THE YEARS 1824-5.

BY THE REV. C. JUDKIN.

"Search the Scriptures: and again I say, SE

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR HUNT AND CLARKE,
YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1828.

765

LONDON:

PRINTED BY C. H. REYNELL, BROAD STREET,

GOLDEN SQUARE.

PREFACE.

In a conversation between the literary and liberal Earl of Shaftsbury and a gentleman who had recently returned from travelling in the East, concerning a certain Mahometan of rank whom the latter had visited, his lordship chanced to say, "Well, and how did you find him with regard to winedrinking and other religious observances ?"

"Oh," returned the traveller, "as I found many others of the educated class. All who visit foreign countries must at first 'stand in the plague of custom.' When