INDEX

Abbas Mirza, 394

Abdallah, 226

Abdool Massee’h, 286, 543

Aberdeen University, 328

Acheen, 228

Aden, 326, 333

Afghanistan, 324, 565

Africa, South, 119, 125

Aga Boozong, 381, 457

— the Mede, 454

Agra, 217

Aitchison, Sir C., 345

Akbar, 218

Albuquerque, 341

Aldeen, 158, 196, 313

Alexander the Great, 330

Alford, Dean, on Martyn, 447

Algoa Bay, 125

Allahabad, 262

Ambrose, 102

Ameena, Sabat’s wife, 270

America, South, 107

American Missions, 463, 568, 569

Amiens, Treaty of, 119

Annie, the orphan, 264

Arabic, 225, 325

— Bible, 226, 418

Arabs, 333, 336

Ararat, 497

Araxes River, 496, 502

Armenians, 134, 346, 385, 464, 499, 515

— Bible, 418

Arrah, 261

Artaxerxes Ochus, 409

Asaf-ood-Dowla’s tomb, 289

Asiatics, 232

Asiatic Researches, 425

— Society of Bengal, 425

Associated Clergy, 206

Augustin of Canterbury, 7

Augustine, 2, 33, 49

Azerbaijan, 493

Babington, Mr., 76

Babism, 372, 569

Badger, Rev. G.P., 527

Bahia, 106

Bailey, Canon, 19, 571

Baird, Sir David, 120

Bandel, 197

Bankipore, 201

Bapre, 332

Baptized for the dead, 552, 567

Barlow, Rev., 571

Barlow, Sir George, 141

Basil the Great, 530

Basiliscus, 530

Battle of Blaauwberg, 121

Baxter, 102

Bede, 418, 460

Behistun Rock, 409

Bengal Army, 136

Bengali Bible, 418

Bengalis, the, 148

Bentinck, Lord W., 146

Berhampore, 250, 258

Bettia, 219

Bible Translation, 72, 418

— Society, British and Foreign, 314, 421, 484

— Russian, 487

Bihar, 201

Bishop, Mrs., 463, 493

Blaauwberg, Battle, 121

Black Hole, 134

Blair’s Sermons, 110

Bobbery Hunt, 332

Bombay, 325

Botany Bay convicts, 101

Bowley, missionary, 431

Brainerd, David, 2, 33, 60, 91, 564

Brazil, 108, 552

Breage, 44, 551

British India Steam Navigation Company, 316

Brown, David, 16, 135, 148, 196, 313, 418

Bruce, Dr. R., 489, 569

Buchanan, Claudius, 16, 69, 135, 243

Buddhism, 134

Bundlekhund, 277

Bunder Abbas, 340

Bunyan, 2

Burke, Edmund, 134

Burmese Bible, 418

Burns, William, 563

Bushire, 339, 348

Busrah, 519

Butler, Dr., 571

Butler’s Analogy, 28

Buxar, 261

Caesareia, 534

Calcutta, 134, 147, 196

Caldecott, Rev. A., 34

Caldwell, Bishop, 290

Cambridge, 12, 15, 207

Canal, Ganges, 267

Canning, Chaplain, 468, 482

Canterbury, Archbishop of, 75, 566

Cape Colony, 119

Cape Town, 118

Cardew, Dr., 9, 41

Carey, William, 4, 25, 133, 147, 418, 487

Carlyle, Thomas, 4

Carlyon, Dr., 20

Carus, 34

Cawnpore, 261, 266, 308

Cecil, R., 59, 78

Cemeteries, Indian, 210

Chaman, 483

Chamberlain, missionary, 200

Chambers, Sir R., 135

— W., 135

Chandernagore, 197

Chaplaincies, India, 72

Chaplains, the Five, 16, 150

Chatterton, 40

Chesterfield’s Letters, 12

China, 27

Chinese Bible, 418

Chinsurah, 197

Christian Knowledge Society, 136, 226

Christians in India a century ago, 139, 423

Chrysostom, 512, 534

Chunar, 208, 260

Church Missionary Society, 40, 136, 399, 489

Clapham, 65

Clarke, Rev. A.T., 136

Clive, Lord, 12, 134

Cole, Captain S., 131, 145

Colebrooke, H.T., 425

— T.E., 327

Colgong, 201

College of Fort William, 138, 151, 421

Columba, 460

Confessions of Augustine, 1, 12, 49

Constable’s edition of Persian New Testament, 489

Constantinople, 492

Corentin, St., 7

Cork, 96

Cornwall tin, 2

Cornwallis, Lord, 141

Corrè, Señor, 107

Corrie, Bishop, 16, 61, 208, 286, 311, 543

— Miss, 245

Covenant with the eyes, 76

Cowell, Professor, 372, 571

Cowper, the poet, 2

Craig, Governor, 119

Creighton, 135, 216

Curgenven, Laura, 239

Cury’s, St., 7

Curzon, G.N., 358, 553

Cutwa, 200

Cyrillus, 418

Cyrus, 370

Dalhousie, Marquis of, 199

Dante, 358

Dare, Mrs., 237

Darius, Hystaspes, 409

Darwin, 108

Dealtry, Bishop, 16

Demonolators, 134

Diamonds, 342

Dinapore, 201, 258

Dissenters, 168

Doddridge, 17, 214

Dravidian, 134

Dryden, 358

Duff, Alexander, 24, 34, 146, 563

Duncan, Jonathan, 318, 326

Dundas, Sir F., 119

Dwight, H.G.O., missionary, 520

East India Company, 202, 529

East India Company’s Charters, 138, 150

Eclectic Society, 59, 79

Edesius, 418

Edmonds, Canon, 417, 420, 490

Educational missions, 201, 216, 274

Edwards, Jerusha, 91

— Jonathan, 28, 91

Elam, 356, 441

Eliot, J., 418

Ellerton, Mr. and Mrs., 135, 201

Elphinstone, Admiral, 119

— Mountstuart, 316, 327

Ely Cathedral, 35

English Bible, 418

Erasmus, 418

Erivan, 499

Erskine, Dr. J., 132

Erzroom, 508

Etchmiatzin, 499

Ethiopia, 120

Ethiopic Bible, 418

Eudoxia, 534

Eurasians, 222

Fabricius, 418

Fal Estuary, 24

Falmouth, 83, 88

Farish, Prof., 74, 441

— of Bombay, 330

Farsakh, 493

Flavel, 76

Fletcher of Madeley, 165

Forsyth, missionary, 197

Fowler, George, 520

Francis, Philip, 201

Franklin’s travels, 237

Fraser, Baillie, 483

French, Bishop, 290, 566

Froude, J.A., 44

Frumentius, 418

Fuller, A., 132

Galitzin, Prince, 487

Ganges, the, 199

Ganges Canal, 267

Gardiner, Capt. A., 108

Gaya, 237

George III., 343

German Bible, 418

Ghazipore, 261

Gilchrist, Dr., 72

Gillespie, Gen., 277

Glen, Dr., 489

Glenelg, Lord, 16, 19

Goa, 318, 322

Godolphin, Margaret, 551

Gombroon, 340

Goorkha war, 277

Gordon, G.M., 562, 564

Gothic Bible, 418

Govan, Dr., 302

Graaff Reinet, 125

Grace Abounding, Bunyan’s, 2

Grant, Charles, 15, 65, 76, 136, 472

— Sir Robert, 16, 19

Greek, 330

— Church, 487

Greenwood, Rev. W., 137

Gregory Nazianzen, 534

— Nyssen, 534

Grenfell, Lydia, 44, 50, 81, 105, 171, 208, 239, 241, 304, 338, 472, 545, 550

— Diary, 84, 91, 98, 102, 106, 188, 191, 298, 476, 537, 546

— family, 44

Grotius, 400

Groves, A., 562

Guadagnoli, P., 400

Gulistan Treaty, 345

Gurlyn, 85

Gwennap, 4, 51

Hafiz, 357

Haldane, R. and J., 132

Hall, Robert, 328, 516

Hannington, Bishop, 290

Hanway, Jonas, 237

Hartwig, P., 66

Hasan and Husain, 411, 455

Hastings, Warren, 137, 201

— Marquis of, 142

Havelock, Sir H., 346

Hawkins, Judge, 432

Heat in India, 261

Heber, Bishop, 288

Hebrew, 426

Helston, 88

Henry, the navigator, 341

Henry Martyn Memorial Hall, 570

Hewett, Gen., 316

Hindus, 224

Hindustani translation, 157, 199, 243, 422, 431

Hitchins, Mrs. T. Martyn, 44, 47, 57

Hooker, 102

Hopkins, Bishop, 25, 29

Horne’s Commentary, 89

Hospitals, military, 211

Hottentot sepoys, 120

Hough’s Christianity in India, 144

Hweng T’sang, 202

Hymns referred to, 17, 27, 40, 83, 84, 107, 287, 310, 547, 567

Idol-worship, 163

Imad-ud-din, 415

India, North, 134

— South, 132

— Christians in, 139, 423

— evangelisation, 225

Inquisition, The, 323

Iran plateau, 353

Ireland and invasion, 101

Isaiah, 24, 95

Islam, 133, 174, 202, 326, 536

Ispahan, 465

Jaffir Ali Khan, 355

Jaganath-worship, 142, 168

Jami, 371

Janssens, Governor, 120

Java, 120, 334

Jefferies, Chaplain, 151

Jeffery, H.M., 6, 47, 56

Jerome, 418

Jerusha Edwards, 91

Jews, 363, 377, 387, 459

Joasmi pirates, 333

John, St., 44

Jones, Sir Harford, 344

— Sir W., 70

Jowett, Prof., 441

— Rev. W., 40

Judson, 418

Julfa, 464

Kajar Dynasty, 341

Kalinjar, 277

Kandahar, 564

Karass, 488

Kars, 506

Kaye, Sir John, 330

Kaziroon, 353

Keith-Falconer, Ion, 22, 326, 564

Kelland, Prof., 20

Kempthorne, 10, 12, 17

Kerr, Dr., chaplain, 144, 226

Kichener, missionary, 125

Kiernander, 48, 134

King’s Chapel, Cambridge, 67

Kingsley, Charles, 44

Kirke White, H., 27, 40

Kirkpatrick, Capt., 136

Komana Pontica, 533

Koran, 324, 398, 487

Kum, 466

Land’s End, 2

Lassen, 409

Latin Bible, 418

— Church on the Bible, 491

Law, William, 30

Lawrence, Honoria, 260

— Lord, 140, 220

— Sir Henry, 260

Lee, Prof., 400, 404

Leighton, R., 59, 102, 555

Letters to Lydia Grenfell, 82, 90, 175, 181, 185, 246, 256, 292, 304, 318, 334, 360, 473, 479

Lewis, G., 133

Leyden, Dr., 423

Limerick, Chaplain, 151

Livingstone, David, 121

Lolworth, 35, 74

London Missionary Society, 28, 200

Ludovicus de Dieu, 400

Lull, Raimund, 400

Luther, 418

Lyte, F.T., 547

Macartney, Earl of, 119

Macaulay, Lord, 516

MacInnes, Col., 227

Mackay of Uganda, 290

Mackintosh, Sir J., 318, 328, 516

Macrina, 534

Madras, 130, 143

Maiwand, 565

Malayalim, 327

Malcolm, Sir John, 143, 318, 328, 344

Maldah, 135, 200

Malpas, 24

Maracci, 324

Marand, 496, 523

Marazion, 43, 53, 82

Marriage, 39, 49, 79, 86

— of missionaries, 48

Marrow men, 132

Marshman, Dr., 157, 197, 314, 418

— John C., 161, 344

Martin, St., 7

— Church, 447

Martyn, Henry, birth, 2;

family, 6;

parents, 9;

as a boy, 10;

at Cambridge, 12;

father’s death, 17;

conversion, 18;

Senior Wrangler, 20;

at Woodbury, 24;

reading, 26;

his rooms, 33;

ordained deacon, 36;

loves Lydia Grenfell, 42;

considers himself engaged to her, 51;

discussions on marriage, 59;

love of music, 65;

appointed East India Company’s chaplain, 73;

farewell to England, 101;

his motto, 102;

at Bahia, 107;

opposition to his preaching, 109;

at the Cape, 118;

describes the Battle of Blaauwberg, 121;

with Vanderkemp, 125;

lands at Madras, 130;

first sermon there, 144;

lands at Calcutta, 147;

‘Let me burn out for God,’ 150;

opposition of chaplains to his preaching, 151;

at Serampore, 158;

Carey’s opinion of Martyn, 161;

at work on his Hindustani Testament, 168;

a missionary to the Mohammedans, 174;

renews his suit to Lydia Grenfell, 175;

appointed to Dinapore, 183;

a Suttee, 184;

prayer in the pagoda, 196;

up the Ganges, 199;

hostility of Europeans at first, 204;

in Patna, 205;

native disaffection, 206;

dreams and sickness, 208;

first letter to the associated clergy, 212;

correspondence with Romanist missionaries, 218;

evangelisation of India, 225;

life with Sabat, 226;

controversy with moulvies, 234;

refused by Lydia, 246;

ordered to Cawnpore, 256;

described by Mrs. Sherwood, 258;

anecdotes of Martyn, 264;

his conversation, 274;

preaching to fakeers, 281;

his convert Abdool Massee’h and others, 285;

overwork, 289;

correspondence with Lydia, 292;

in the new church, Cawnpore, 309;

return to Calcutta, 313;

voyage to Arabia and Persia, 317;

in Bombay, 325;

in the Persian Gulf, 333;

lands in Persia, 339;

in Bushire, 346;

to Shiraz, 349;

in Shiraz, 360;

controversies with Shiahs, Soofis, and Jews, 375;

with the Moojtahid, 394;

at Persepolis, 410;

the Ramazan, 411;

his place as a Bible translator, 418;

as a philologist, 425;

as a Hebraist, 426;

his Hindustani Bible, 431;

Arabic New Testament, 434;

Persian studies, 445;

Alford on Martyn, 447;

Persian New Testament, 450;

Persian New Testament completed, 460;

to Ispahan, Teheran, and Tabreez, 463;

illness at Tabreez, 474;

last words to Lydia Grenfell, 481;

New Testament

presented to the Shah, 484;

as a translator, 490;

the Pope’s condemnation, 491;

towards Constantinople, 494;

with the Armenians

at Etchmiatzin, 499;

at Erzroom, 508;

furiously hurried towards Tokat, 571;

last words in his Journal, 573;

burial, 515;

Remembrances of Martyn, 520;

the first grave, 529;

the second grave, 530;

effect of the news of his death, 543;

first memoir by Sargent, 547;

last words of Lydia Grenfell’s Diary, 551;

Henry Martyn’s followers, 553;

memorials of Henry Martyn, 570;

the lessons of his life, 571

Massacre Well, 267

Mathematics in Cambridge, 20

Mather, Dr. R.C., 433

Mawby, Col., 266

McNeill, Sir John, 520

Meer Kasim, 202

Megasthenes, 202

Mekran, 334

Mesnevi, The, 526

Metcalfe, Lord, 143

Methodism, 26

Methodius, 418

Miesrob, 418

Military Asylums, 260

— Orphan School, Calcutta, 136

Milner, Dean, 235

Milner, Isaac, 16, 74, 441

Minto, Lord, 120, 142, 231, 313, 316, 334, 344

Miracle Play of Hasan and Husain, 411

Mirza Fitrut, 230

— Ibrahim, 399, 403

— M. Ruza, 403

— Sayyid Ali Khan, 360, 488

Missionary call, 26, 572

— societies, 28, 43, 136, 141

— council at the Cape proposed, 170

— preaching, 173, 213

— and the East India Company, 241

— life, 279

— martyrdom, 290, 513

Mohammedan controversy (see ‘Islam’), 214, 233, 363, 375, 475

Mohammedans, missions to, 225, 524, 572

Moheecan Bible, 418

Monghyr, 201

Montgomery, Sir R., 140

Moojtahids, 395

Moor, Canon, 438

Moorshidabad, 200

Moravian mission, 119

Morier, James, 356, 391, 482

Moule, Archdeacon, 567

— Rev. H.C.G., 22, 42

Muir, Sir W., 400

Muscat, 337, 567

Music, Martyn’s love of, 65, 207, 265, 296

Mutiny, Indian, 202

— the White, 202

Mysticism, literature of, 554

Nadir Shah, 341

Nana Dhoondoo Panth, 267

Naoroji, D., 330

Napoleon Bonaparte, 120, 143, 343

Nelson, Lord, 81

Nestorians, 569

Netherlands East India Company, 119

Newton, John, 66, 75, 137

Norman, Sir H., 220

Obeck, 135

Oman, 333

Omar Khayyam, 371

Ooroomia, 483

Orme’s Indostan, 108

Ormuz Island, 341

Osborne, Lord S.G., 44

Oudh, Nawab of, 289

Ouseley, Sir Gore, 143, 344, 484

Oxford, 11

Pagoda, Henry Martyn’s, 158, 313

Paley, Dr., 30

Papendorp Articles, 121

Parasang, 493

Parsees, 330, 340, 371

Parson, Chaplain, 183, 200, 258

Patna, 201

Paul, the Apostle, 60, 381

Peacock, Dean, 20

Pearce, S., 26, 34

Pellew, Sir E., 131, 145

Pelly, Sir Lewis, 411, 455

Penang, 228

Pendennis, 88

Persepolis, 356, 409

Persia, 234, 237, 328, 340, 348, 370, 446

Persian Bible, 418, 445, 462, 484, 489

— Gulf, 333

— travelling, 493

Pfander, Dr., 399, 415

Philology, 425

Pietists, 132

Pilgrim’s Progress, 63, 80, 214

Pinkerton, Rev. R., 488

Pitt, W., 69, 120

Plassey, 134

Poona, 326

Pope Pius VIII., 491

Popham, Sir H., 120

Porter, Sir R.K., 342, 519

Portraits of Henry Martyn, 80, 307

— of Lydia Grenfell, 244

Portugal in the East, 322, 341

Preaching and missions, 243, 281

Queen-Empress Victoria, 333, 342

Quishlang, 468

Raffles, Sir S., 121

Rajmahal, 200

Ramazan Fast, 411

Ranjeet Singh, 143, 277

Rawlinson, Sir H., 409

Rayner, M., 66

Redruth, 51

Regiment, the 59th, 101

— the 67th, 220, 312

Regiment, the 53rd, 257

— the 8th Light Dragoons, 276

Reid, missionary, 125

Reshire, 346

Rich, C.J., 516, 563

Riebeck, Governor, 119

Robber Island, 118

Roberts, Lord, 565

Robinson, Archdeacon, 489

Rodney, Capt., 320

Romanist Christians, 217, 318, 569

Rumsden, Prof., 441

Ruskin, 33

Russia, 415, 345, 482

Rutherford, Samuel, 2

Ryland, Dr., 516

Sabat, 225, 269, 422

Sadi, 371

St. Andrews, 24

St. Hilary church, 55

St. John’s College, Cambridge, 13, 33, 570

St. Michael’s Mount, 43, 90, 96

Sandys, Major, 54

San Salvador, 106

Sanskrit, 199

Sardhana, 286

Sargent, John, 22, 50, 227, 544

Sati, 184

Schürmann, missionary, 432

Schwartz, 60, 65, 139, 144, 317

Scott, Sir Walter, 423

Scott’s Dekkan, 108

Scottish Missions, 488, 564

Seatonian Prize, 67

Seleukos Nikator, 202

Serampore, 34, 158, 162, 422

Sermons by Martyn, 55, 67, 78, 109, 151, 549

Serope or Serrafino, 500, 521

Shah Abbas, 340

— Futteh Ali, 341, 484

— Nasr-ed-Deen, 489

— Zeman, 325

Sheheran, 511

Sheikh Othman, 326

— Saleh, see Abdool Massee’h

Sherley Brothers, 340

Sherwood, Mrs., 257, 283

Shiahs, 373

Shiraz, 355, 448, 565

Shore, see ,Teignmouth

Simeon, Charles, 15, 27, 34, 42, 109, 190, 544, 553

Sin, Pauline doctrine of, 109

Smith, Dr. Eli, 435, 519

Societies, Missionary, 28, 43, 136, 141

Soldiers in India, 200, 203, 219, 256, 265

Solitude, 462

Soofis, 371, 413, 443, 570

Soonnis, 373

Soudan, 120

Southey, 40

Spiritual Exercises, 51, 92, 117, 126, 209, 557

Stanley, Dean, 411

Stannaries, 3

Staunton, Sir G., 27

Stephen, Sir James, 1, 65

Stevenson, W., 132

Stuart, Bishop E., 566

Suffavian dynasty, 341

Sultania, 468

Sunstroke, 347

Tabreez, 472, 482

Taleb Massee’h, 286

Tauris, 482

Taylor, Dr., 169, 326

Teheran, 356, 466

Teignmouth, Lord, 135, 138, 421

Teutonic Bible, 418

Theologia Germanica, 555

Thomas à Kempis, 53, 420, 555

Thomas, Dr., 135

Thomason, 434, 543

Thompson, M., Chaplain, 144

Thornton, H., 16, 41, 476

Tilsit, Treaty of, 143, 344

Timour, 356

Tin of Cornwall, 2

Tipoo’s Library, 151

Tokat, 518

Tranquebar, 130

Translation of Bible, 72, 280, 382, 417

Tregothnan, 24

Trinity Church, Cambridge, 36, 571

— College, Cambridge, 34, 571

Truro, 3, 5, 24, 41

Tsar Alexander, 343

Turks, 512

Udny, George, 15, 135

Ulfilas, 418

Unwin, Mrs., 66

Vanderkemp, Dr., 29, 123

Van Dyck, Dr., 418, 435

Van Lennep, Dr., 527

Vaughan, Dean, 571

Vellore Mutiny, 422

Venables, Canon, 535

Venn, Henry, 569

Vienna Congress, 121

Wahabees, 202, 333

Wainwright, Commodore, 334

Wall’s Lane, Cambridge, 70

Ward, Chaplain, 155

— missionary, 157, 429

Waring, Scott, 237, 357

Watson, Bishop, 137

Wellesley, Marquess, 135, 343

Wesley, Charles, 4

— John, 3, 132

Westcott, Bishop, 571

Westergaard, 409

Wilkins, Sir C., 516

White, Kirke, 27, 40, 68

— Lieut., 138

Whitfield, George, 3, 132

Whytehead, missionary, 570

Wickes, Capt., 186

Wiclif, 418

Wilberforce, Bishop S., 22

— W., 40, 65, 69, 570

Wilkinson, missionary, 433

Wilson, Bishop D., 201, 553

— Dr. John, 290, 327, 399, 563

Wolverton, Lord, 44

Wood, Col., 307

Woodbury, 24

Wordsworth, 570

Wrangler, Senior, 19, 71, 264

Xavier, Francis, 174, 218, 318

— P.H., 399, 416

Xenophon and the Ten Thousand, 502

Xerxes, 409

Young, Col. and Mrs., 241, 313

— Governor, 119

Yule, Sir Henry, 332

Zambesi, 120

Ziegenbalg, 132

Zoroaster, 371

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