454-482, and vol.vii.pp.

26-68.
In January, 1841, Dr.Grant had the pleasure of witnessing the departure of the Rev.Messrs.Abel K.Hinsdale and Colby C.
Mitchell, and their wives, for the Mountain Nestorians.

They went by way of Aleppo and Mosul, that being the more practicable route for females; but the Doctor, thinking to reach the mountains before them, and prepare for their arrival, went himself by way of Constantinople, Erzroom, and Van.

He was at Constantinople May 14th, and at Van on the first day of July.

The journey from Erzroom to that place was wearisome and perilous, famine, the plague, and predatory Koords harassing him nearly all the way.
Van, with fourteen thousand Armenian population, though at that time difficult of access, was even then regarded as an important place for a missionary station, and preferable for residence to most others in the interior.