The Bible Society at length agreed to print the work and sent George Borrow to St. Petersburg in 1831, to assist Lipoftsof in rev manuscript and in the proof-reading. 'A special fount of Manchu type had had to be cast, and it was three years before the work was completed and the New Testament for M: churia printed, A thousand copies were made, each book being a bulky concern, resembling very much the old-fashioned Family Bible, and the next problem for the Bible Society to decide was how to got the books out to Manchuria and into the hands of the Manchus.
The difficulties were great, for only a few missionaries were in China at that time, and they neither knew the Manchu language nor were in touch with the Manchu people, s0 that it was only an odd copy or s0 that ever found its way to M churia, and after some time thi and the type were transferred from. St. Petersburg to the Bible House in London, where they lay, appar ly dead, under a gradually thickening, carpet of dust for some 50 years.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.