… an American, along with his wife, left America after just two weeks of marriage. In 1813 arrived in Burma, and his determination was to translate the Bible in the local language, which was very hard then. There was no dictionary, there was no one who could actually teach him and yet he set to learning the language. He had a period of time where he was in prison with 3 pairs of iron fetters attached to his body. He was very concerned about his manuscript of the Bible which was hidden under the earth under his home. His wife eventually broucht it to him in prison, it was hidden in a pillow. By 1835 had the Bible translated into the local language.

Geoffrey W. Jackson: Reaching the Most Distant Part of the Earth