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him to return to Singapore, and the mission to Borneo was
abandoned.
The records of the same 5'ear begin the stor}' of another
mission that has proved more successful. At the Annual
Meeting it was decided to open work in Penang, on the west

DYAK DWELLING, BORNEO

coast of the peninsula. Penang is the second city in the
Straits Settlements, and has a population of about one hun-
dred and twenty-five thousand people, most of them being
Chinese or Tamils. "' The island of Penang was acquired by
the English government by cession from a native
Extension prince in 1785 for the small annual payment of
to Penang $6,000. It is two miles from the mainland, and is
twelve miles long and nine wide. Later a small
strip was taken possession of on the opposite coast to arrest
the Malay piracy of that part of the high seas. This strip
is known as Province Wellesley, and was purchased for an
annuity of $2,000."
In the spring of 1891 the Rev. Daniel D. Moore and the
Rev. Benjamin H. Balderston were chosen to begin
Rapid Growth this new mission. In July Mr. Balderston opened
a school on the plan of the Anglo-Chinese school
at Singapore, and a few weeks later he was joined by Mr.
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