told been previously TrihowedThy. the' Portuguese with ,gteat success* and
there, are now* several Small; islands to the. Malayan Archipelago, . inhabited:
almost exclusively* by. Christians, of-the Catholic' persuasioto?. In. manyi other
islands the Protestant.' persuasion. has ' made' considerable;-tpllQ^ress^,'and
teachers, in the flourishing times .of the Batavian Regency, wereidispersed
over all the “low ;chain of 'islands'.which extend' from.nBdli arid Lujphok
(Sasalc) to the great island Timor,.; The islands in which th&lOhristian'faith
has-bfeen’most extensively diffused,care the great island Em.de or Meng'ardi,
the great .island, of; Timor^ and: the‘several small islands in the vicinity, .and
S Amboina. ,In many-of .these islands the natives having' no written'chaiaioter
of" their own, havp? been ,‘tostrueted' in' the" Roman, character, "and taught to
' read Malayan and other dialects in it. Thete have also"betorVarious'formu-
laries’ printed for their use, and translations have b'eeri, executed for therein
some ofe their-languages, -which have little- or no aflinity to the ;Malayan,
The propagation of - Christianity .among .these islands, is voBvioukly. liable "to
none'off. those'.objections .which have been, urged against-its, missiohariel. on
continental possessions^- A'great proportion of-th'e .nativesjarej-stilh paga'ns,
under -the influence; of a wild andr-almost uhihtglligible buperstitiqri^iffche
' principles ,of-which are, not.Tecorded iu'books,- but are ha.hdedtdp,wn^ike
stories of ghosts, fairies, and witches," with all'fhe uncertainty'of rtradilgon.
fn most instances,-the people, thoughthey stand in^rhto'a!^:o^^1dxei,p)rirats
or enchanter^,’ or dealers with invisible spirits, arA.jyefey^tfle^attached.do
' f he‘superstition in which they are educated. . Many pf tJ|em'-are said tome
very.‘desirous- of ^procuring; instruction,, and -in.- some pl^ees^tjiey look—up
with-a degr’ee off;veneration to'the Mahometans, as a-people whq_lhaye
received something which they still want.
. These' observations on; the- Malayan Islands in general, apply, to no part
of the" Archipelago more than to the’important and-great islan$ *q£ Borneo.
Borneo. Borneo is not .only- one; of the unost; fertile, countries in thevVcprld, jbut
one'of the"most .productive in'gold and diamonds.* Its camphor, is-Ihe
wftpit
* G old.—From a calculation recently made, it appears thatlhe number of Chinese .employed
in the gold mines act Mentrada.and other places rin.-the western side of Borneo, -amount^ to' pot
less-than thirty-two thousand working men,.^, When a mine affords no more than fowc'faenglcals
. (weighing about two'dollars' each,.or something less than a tdhil) per man in the year, it is
reckoned a losing concern arid" abandoned accordingly. Valuing the bengJcal at eighteen
Spanish dollars, which is a low rate of estimation, and supposing orily four beftgkaU-fivckucei
in the year by the labotir of each man, the total produce 128,000 l'engkais, -yr<yct\i -2*224,000
Spanish
d rie st k nown, a n d if ’us th o u g h f 'c a p a b le o f^ ro d u c in g - ev e ry 1 k in d o f sptow
Its fe ^ iê f^ k c ^ a s ts ^ which/ahouhtl! in «^gcj^ffalso^fui'nish g re a te r q u an tity , o f
birdsVnests,
Spanish^^fel, 'equal thé rafé- the ddlll^ih asserted*
tfaffupon thèag^e^^i^oè^titomines, seldom per head haftbefen-iobtaihed,
and in very rainy'séasons seven. Taking thé médium at six and a half b e n g k c tls , the -82,000
'at1
t .1 )QQ. Span
-dB ïbeséiaÉrieér- 'fgtSais#' •
.dollars, being an excess of a million sterling. The quantity ö ^ g éP > ^ ^ p ritd^M^ftiatra^1llfe
■ ■ H M C h e rso n to ö f.'th e a t ó t s , .is.^a.ceöfd^1 td^®|Salsdmh'"aboq.tri3CflM)p
^ ^ fe ^ yM c h " a t fésterlinifytfe^Mn^ps worththat^
vel&ïïahve' Chinese,- whe'thh'^employea'inrra^rijines/ iiJ ta ^ e S ïtïir|,^P®™ ® Pw ‘*art1“
ficer, manages every year to remit at least the value of one t a h i l , more or less, of gold to his
Jhuahl ,i''riion!c!^iUJ-,muaalcd ^m '.bore uithout■'thctriofiré'öMitiTr i plcioiP *VIai dann,1* mdv
«gritted» Qvqi^land’hoto^i'erf^Mc^of^fei’r'famiKèsltiriTritemlctoi^' 1
horn1 in-lJu; [c6ónh'y^'n.iasikoi'i'''ivlH)in rinay*ruit" amount1-to
84!;0OQ, ^ ê h ^ ca l^ .^ t^d s , whioh Jsi(&gËtéen/Spanish
, o I f rsiSl^llatédïthatK one^yeaR.wiÖi ?anothèr,, at least* fivÉf^hrindr^^^mtfese return in the
tó é th e^ n a ty ^1 coüntfy with aVömpetianéy. uSCTeratbri^sB^^-tkriown tobal^etaway
...M K
! tfro, tHlou^ari>JfeffBp3gBy
IM n m S ^ d twenty T R i ^ g é S ^ a r f c h o ” ®mI^'1'^m ‘ër investing a
Wart off^KwnSïtonpfeMca, ,opium5'"andr opier 'aitielest’
half inigoldj cffvfelBuudre^^K’Jdr'one thousand dollarslèaohj' Wilt' gi^^fiiTe'^feiMmqusand
Jdóïlars?--whicli* addedhcraffejbiiall family remfttanées7 < aVTooUn ts * for jan hunóun^ ox'iv'édirjg fnj?g
"^UhonsOT-Tdoïlarsf 'OS-• JéSS0;ÓOO. Th's c^^}a^i<M|^hoWe\^r^g^^o be'fa^^Kmiitne'mark,'
ahdïgives-ilé^-b^'OT^Éfifihan whatis ust^ys^iedifbïbe^emftfedïto' t ’hiiia^ W tng*B%<^|.
mines, Which1 lias. been estimated at a'loösè' guess aAVSwliitmsC1 öf dbllarS, of IföOOjöQOS’nVl
A'further amoünt'^fi no,È''l®&than th,eyS iw ^''a''millioS'^0 ^B^y p ,2^CfO®m's?suppo'éé’d;to'
' flndfets wayWannually “to' .-Western India,-''ari®1 ^ihcïpSlly -Batavia, ''iMaldeea,
'aridi-A’iharig, ifotthe .ptochasèofinpiöm'iah^m(p^o:‘d's;.^^^TOi:.p^'1l^ a n d é o r n e
öf.the other islands, iqjeicMnge for rs a lt^ tto ^ ?0^’'Co^,^ ^ ° ^ ^ ^ c-)i^
? AiS-ithe 'iniries are'
an.undertaS^èï*; the .kip-d are small; ■'6ndtas,'“fh ^fo pWt^o f. thé soit Belong# feli
/the fifet^odcupant, almost.!e-rery^Ghinesej wofild hecomA^f.op^e#^thuV hom th e ife ^ ^ h y
«which tSIi^^teties are, in^hdfilfst’ihstarice,
Apareéfirof half starvedsGhinese, encharited' w ® tKetjff^fetJiéfc
nf éBorneoJ. rSailyisfindja passage, in.the,arinual3j u n k s - , t h a t o m i théumother country’?ta
•Borneo a t;tèn> dollrirscat head.-i?,Ori thejr arrival being unable rie; pèyi'the-paesage.m'o^éyp
rind