The result was not favorable to their object, and the next day their presents were returned, and they had permission to leave the country.

They left during the week, but not till they had taken much pains, though apparently without success, to shake the Patriarch's confidence in the American missionaries.

Soon after, early in November, Mr.Hinsdale returned to Mosul.
Up to this time, Mar Yusuf had been fearless and tolerably patient, but he had now become heartily tired of the mountains, and longed for his peaceful home on the plain.

It was the first time in a life of fifty years, that he had been ill when far from home.

Yet he had been faithful in imparting religious instruction, and the missionary regretted his departure.