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they were murdered by tlie natives after being there but a
short time. The American Board also carried on work on
the west coast of Borneo from 1839 to 1849.
Of Celebes Mr. Alfred Lea says that among the islands of
Malaysia there is "no other spot of like dimensions whose
people are so well taught, so intelligent, and so well
Work in behaved, whose villages are so well ordered and clean.
Celebes whose houses are so well built and kept in such good
repair, and whose women and children are so well
cared for."
In the British possessions there are missionaries of the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the English Pres-
byterian Church, the Plymouth Brethren, the Society for
the Propagation of Female Education in the Far
Anglo- Saxon East, the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the
Agencies Young Men's Christian Association. The agents
of the British and Foreign Bible Society travel
througliout both the English and the Dutch colonies. It
was at Malacca, on the
west coast of the Malay
Peninsula, that Milne,
Medhurst, and Dr. Legge
founded schools and did
evangelistic work while
they w^ere learning the
language and waiting for
the doors of the Middle
Kingdom to be opened.
When these missionaries
could enter the Chinese
Empire, the w^ork in the
Straits Settlements was
abandoned and they with-
drew to begin work in
China. But that field is
now responding nobly l)y
sendmg many Christian CHINESE RICE MILL used
^^ MALAYSIA
settlers into Malaysia.
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