These were lost in his shipwreck, but he afterwards replaced them at Constantinople, to the number of two hundred; so varied, that the punches formed for them would make not far from a thousand matrices.

These he placed in the hands of Mr.Hallock, the missionary printer at Smyrna, who possessed great mechanical ingenuity, and was entirely successful in cutting the punches.

The type was cast at Leipzig by Tauchnitz.

Thus a really great and important work, without which the press could not have been domesticated among the many millions to whom the Arabic is vernacular, was brought to a successful issue.
The disastrous shipwreck of Mr.and Mrs.Smith on their way from Beirut to Smyrna, has been already mentioned.

The voyage was undertaken chiefly for the benefit of Mrs.Smith's health; but the exposures consequent on the shipwreck, extending through twenty-eight days until their arrival at Smyrna, aggravated her consumptive tendencies, and hastened her passage to the grave.