A press, made for the mission, to be taken to pieces and so rendered portable, came with the printer, much to the satisfaction of the people.

A font of Syro-Chaldaic type had previously been received from London, through the kindness of the Rev.Joseph Jowett, editorial superintendent of the British and Foreign Bible Society's publications.

The press was the more seasonable, because the Jesuits had commenced their characteristic and determined efforts to get possession of the field.

The vain young bishop, Mar Gabriel, imagining himself to have been slighted by his clerical brethren, and being strongly assailed with flatteries and offers of money, had, in an evil hour, encouraged them to come among his people.

On reflection he repented of his rashness, called in the aid of his Protestant friends, and wrote to Bore, the French Jesuit, warning him to keep aloof from his people.
Bore was enraged, and replied that, having a firman from the King of Persia permitting him to open schools, he should open one at Ardishai.