A general view of the state of the Mis- || what has taken place in Mr. Browning's sion, and various details, were given at pp. || being fixed at Kandy, they appointed the 521-525 of our last Volume. Rev. Joseph Bailey and Mrs. Bailey to Nellore; and joined with them the Sister of Mr. Knight, who had been accustomed to labour with her Brother when in England in the gratuitous instruction of the Young, and whose assistance at his Station Mr. Knight had particularly requested. They embarked at Gravesend, with a Nephew of Mr. Lambrick, on the 6th of June, on board the Palmira; and reached the Cape, in their way, on the 25th of September. The Congregations, Adults and Children, were sometimes from 200 to 300. There are four Natives who interpret readily, and are Communicants: of five others, || there are good hopes. The Scholars were about 700. In the Mission Families, 70, named by Benefactors, were maintained and educated. It will have been seen at p. 525 of our last Volume, that the Board have agreed to require Twenty Dollars per annum from persons who wish to name and support Children, as Twelve Dollars have been found insufficient to eover contingent expenses. Many of the Boys now speak English, and render much assistance in the Mission. The Missionaries contemplated, therefore, an extension of their labours, by each of their number establishing himself, with Native Assistants, at a separate Station, Mr. Knight has been authorized to purchase the House in which he resides, with some ground attached, on behalf of the Society. A temporary building was to be erected for a Place of Worship, as the Congregation of Adults and Children could not be accommodated in the House. He preaches also on Sunday Evenings, in a Bungalow Chapel at Kykooler, a neighbouring village. In July last, there were Nine Schools, containing 409 Scholars, the average attendance being 290. Mr. Knight calculates that, with due assistance and accommodation, he could collect for instruction, within a mile-and-a-half or two miles of his residence, 800 Boys, and in time an equal number of Girls. In the beginning of October he writes that the Cholera Morbus had again broken out, and swept off many. He had found it necessary to dismiss his Scholars for a time. On Thursdays, the Masters of the Nine Schools assemble, and deliver in the Reports of the week, when Mr. Knight gives them special instruction, and dismisses them with prayer. The increase of his labours has prevented Mr. Knight from entering on the plan of receiving Youths into his house. The arrival of Mr. Bailey has probably, before this time, enabled him to execute his design. The Annual Meeting of the Society's Missionaries for 1821, took place at Nellore, on the 22nd of September and following days; when Mr. Lambrick attended from Kandy, and Mr. Ward from Baddagamme. Richard Burton, Nathaniel M. Ward, Missionaries. Mr. Evans and Mr. Burton, mentioned in the last Survey, arrived on the 9th of June 1820. They were cordially received by the Governor, Sir T. S. Raffles; who welcomed them to a great scene of labour opening before them, as the first Missionaries who had landed in Sumatra. The millions of its Native Inhabitants seem little prejudiced in favour of their false religion, and multitudes of them appear indifferent to all religion. There are circumstances in the case of the Battas which might well appal one who was weak in faith. Mr. and Mrs. Burton, however, offered themselves for this service. Mr. Burton accordingly proceeded up the coast, with the view of ascertaining the most eligible situation for a second Missionary Station. Padang offered a ready entrance into the Menancabow Territory, formerly the seat of Government of the whole island, and where Malay is spoken by nearly a million of people. At Natal, about 120 miles still further north-west than Padang, Mr. Burton was heartily welcomed by the British Resident, John Prince, Esq., who has justly acquired great influence over the Natives: he considered the Battas, whom he thought to be half a million in number, a most important object of Missionary Labour; and thought Tapanooly, a British Settlement, 80 or 90 miles to the It was proposed to establish a Seminary, north-west, the fittest seat of a Mission with a view to relieve the expenses of the to that people. Mr. Burton was preMission. The Governor hud transferred vented from visiting Tapanooly by the to the Missionaries the care of an Orphan state of the wind, and returned to Bencoolen. School for half-caste Children: the re- Mr. Prince, it appears, afterward assigned ligious education of these Orphans, who reasons which convinced the Missionaries, will hereafter fill the inferior offices under that the people of Pulo Nias, which island Government, and are but one step re- lies nearly opposite to Tapanooly, ought I moved from the native population, will to have the preference to the Battas; as contribute much to the influence of Chris-there seem to be fewer obstacles among tianity among the people. Mr. Ward had established a Printing Office. The first volume of a work, entitled "Malayan Miscellanies," by a Literary Society at Bencoolen, has appeared from this press. In the beginning of last year, Mr. Ward sailed for Calcutta, to procure materials for the Office, and assistance for the Schools of the Mission. Mr. Burton has been fully employed in the establishment of Native Schools. One had been founded before their arrival, which was put under their charge. Four others had been opened, at distances of from three to six miles from Bencoolen. In this place itself and its immediate neighbourhood, there are six large Bazars, or Market Streets: in each of these, by the Governor's direction, the people were erecting a spacious School Room, for the assembling of their Children. PADANG. A Dutch Settlement, about 300 miles north-west of Bencoolen. 1821. Charles Evans, Missionary. On the arrival of Mr. Burton and Mr. Evans at Bencoolen, the Governor suggested the establishment of a Mission to the northward. He directed their attention to the Battas, in particular; and to Pulo Nias, an island which lies off the west coast of Sumatra, about 500 miles north-west of Bencoolen: the people of this island, computed at upward of 200,000, had recently sent to him to inquire of what religion they should be! Fab. 1822. them in the way of Christianity, and less ground of apprehension for personal security. It appeared, however, on Mr. Burton's return to Bencoolen, that Mr. Evans had found his strength unequal to the labours required at that Station; and the Dutch Authorities agreeing to his settling at Padang, he proceeded thither, with Mrs. Evans and their child, reaching his Station on the 12th of February of last year. He preaches on Sundays to the English and Americans, and had begun to establish Schools. ceived. There are nine or ten Men and a few Women, who appear to have received the Gospel. Two, if not more, have died, he believes, in the faith. Of a dying Chinese, of whose state he had doubts, though he was not destitute of hope, he says It is affecting, and a little encouraging, to hear a poor idolater, while lying on a sick bed, in prospect of death, say, "I know that none but Jesus can save me! I will pray to Him, and die under His feet!" LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 1814-revived 1819. John Slater, Missionary. these bereavements; but steadily perseveres in his efforts to make known to these benighted Hea then and bigoted Mussulmans the way of salvation. SOURABAYA. A Settlement on the north-east coast, eastward of NETHERLANDS MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 1819. Buttenaar, Missionary. CELEBES. A Dutch Island, separated from Borneo by the Straits of Macassar-500 miles in length by 150 average breadth, but of a very singular form. NETHERLANDS MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 1820. . Hellendoorn, Missionary. Mr. Hellendoorn was appointed to Batavia, and arrived there in 1819; but has been stationed at Macassar, the Capital of Celebes. After visiting the Island of Banca, off the eastern coast of Sumatra, The Mission Premises, at a little distance from the town, are situated in the midst of Chinese Villages and Mahome. dan Dwellings. A School has been opened there, and another in Batavia, for Chinese Children. English Worship is held in the Mission House every Sunday Morning. Religious Services have not yet been established for the Heathen; but public and preaching there, he proceeded to conversations are continued, on which oc. casions the Chinese, in particular, assemble in crowds. The Scriptures and Tracts, in Chinese, are circulated by all favourable opportunities; and especially by means of the junks returning to China. Mr. Slater feels anxious that every seaman should return home, not only with the Word of God in his hand, but also in his chest, for circulation among his friends. Measures have been adopted to send assistance to Mr. Slater, in the increased labours of the Mission. SAMARANG. A Town on the north-east coast of the Island. Gottlob Bruckner, Missionary. Mr. Bruckner is constantly engaged in visits to the surrounding Villages. In our last Volume, pp. 265-270, we gave a Memoir of Mr. Trowt, who here died amidst his labours: the return to England of Mr. Phillips, and his death there, were also noticed in the last Survey. In reference to these events the Commit tee remark This Station has acquired a mournful interest in the History of our Society: as being the spot on which one faithful Missionary resigned his life in the service of his Lord and Master; and another became so enfeebled by sickness, as to be compelled to relinquish the work in which his heart delighted, and return to die in his native land. Mr. Bruckner, our surviving Missionary there, has deeply felt Celebes, TIMOR. A Dutch Island, lying off the south-west coast of Ceram-32 miles by 10-in 1796, the Inhabitants were 45,952; of whom 17,813 were Protestants, and the rest chiefly Mahomedans. LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.. 1814. Joseph Kam, Missionary. In the beginning of 1819, the Netherlands Missionary Society sent out several Missionaries, who were placed by Mr. Kam in different spheres of labour. After fixing his friends, he writes of his own labours Besides 28 Congregations at Amboyna, there are 60 more in the different Dutch Islands which I have to visit. Every Congregation has its own Church or Chapel, and I have therefore to preach in more than 80 places. All the professed Christians are descendants from Heathens. In a late voyage among these Islands, Mr. Kam distributed 3000 copies of the Malay Testament sent out by the British and Foreign Bible Society: the inhabitants of one of them soon after destroyed a These Tesgreat number of their idols. taments were in the Roman character: supply in the Arabic has been also forwarded by the Bible Society. Mr. Kam estimates the number of Native Christians, || Kam in his labours, and preaches with throughout the Moluccas, who were in success. need of the Scriptures, to be between forty-five and fifty thousand. During this tour, Mr. Kam baptized about Fifty Adults, besides Children; and was every where received with cordiality. Two Javanese and two Amboynese, who had received instruction in the Seminary, were lately baptized. Mr. Kam has printed 3000 Malay Catechisms and other works. Four of the Native Christians are employed at the press. NETHERLANDS MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 1819. Fion, Mueller, Bormeister, Akersloth, Missionaries. In the Spring of last year, they were joined by Mr. Frederic Mueller and Mr. Ferdinand Bormeister, from the Bâsle Seminary, and Mr. Akersloth, from Hol land. When they have acquired the lan guage, they will probably be stationed in different Islands. TERNATE. A small Dutch Island-one of the Moluccas. NETHERLANDS MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 1819. - Jungmichel, Missionary. Mr. Kam writes that there are twentytwo Congregations under Mr.Jungmichel's care, in Ternate and some neighbouring Mr. Finn has since 1819 assisted Mr. Islands. Australasia. New South Wales. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The burden which has lain on that un wearied friend of the Society, the Rev. Samuel Marsden, has sometimes, under the peculiar circumstances of local difficulty in which he has been placed, nearly overwhelmed him: but God has graciously supported his mind; and he is now likely to receive effectual protection and support in his benevolent plans for the good of the Heathen. In an interview which Mr. Wilberforce and the Secretary had, by appointment, with His Excellency Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane, proceeding as Governor to this Colony, Sir Thomas confirmed to them what he had previously expressed by Letter to the Noble President of the Society; assuring the Deputation of his hearty support of the Society's plans in these seas, he having made himself well acquainted with Mr. Marsden's proceedings, which he highly approved. turned in the Hope to New Zealand. Mr. James Shepherd also returned, with his wife, by the same vessel: he went out with Mr. Marsden in the Dromedary, in February 1820, and had come back in her to the Colony for a short time: very intelligent instructions were addressed to Mr. Shepherd by the Corresponding Committee. Mr. John Cowell had not proceeded to New Zealand, at the date of the last despatches in August. His Wife died at Sydney, after a few days' illness, Nov. 22, 1820: "I am thankful," said this dying Christian, "for so many friends→→→ but Jesus Christ is my best friend!" and her last words were-" Grieve not for me! I shall soon be with Jesus Christ my Saviour." Mr. Marsden's absence, on his Third Visit to New Zealand, while it was an occasion of detaining Mr. Cowell in the Colony, gave him an opportunity of acquiring information and making many experiments on the Phormium of New Zealand. In these he was greatly as Under the favour of His Excellency,sisted by Captain F. Irvine, a zealous the Committee have no doubt but that Mr. friend of the Society, who has removed Marsden, and the other friends of the So- from Bengal to New South Wales. After ciety in the Colony, will be able to place Mr. Marsden's return from his Third the distant and difficult Mission at New Visit to New Zealand, these experiments Zealand under a more effectual system of were continued: it appeared probable that direction and support, than it has hitherto enjoyed. They formed themselves, on the 2d of March, into a Corresponding Committee, for the conducting of the Society's We adopt the term Phormium, after Captain Irvine; as that is the Linnæan name of the genus, and the Phormium tenas of New Zealand is the only species hitherto known under that genus. Seven varieties. have, however, been lately ascertained by Mr. Marsden. The plant has been sometimes called Flax; and, at others, Hemp: but those plants belong to other genera; and the Phormium is said to unite the properties of both Flax and Hemp in a superior degree. EDITORS. it would be expedient to defer the pro-proceed to the Shukeangha, a fine river jected rope-work in New Zealand; but to on the west side of the Island, and where habituate the Natives, both to extend the the numerous inhabitants are very urgent cultivation of the plant, and to cleanse the for the residence of a Missionary. raw material for exportation. Mr. Cowell had married again, in July. Mr. Kendall, and the Chiefs Shunghee and Whykato, arrived in the Colony in May; and sailed for New Zealand, in the Westmoreland, on the 4th of July. WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. W. Walker, Missionary to the Black Natives. The degraded condition of the Aboriginal Natives of New Holland was noticed in the last Survey. On this Mission, devoted to their benefit, the Committee remark The case of these wretched men has been laid on the hearts of the pious in the Colony; and earnest appeals have been made in their behalf, with a view of producing a systematic effort for their religious instruction; and, in consequence, some means have been adopted for that purpose. With those who have thus commenced this benevolent work, Mr. Walker is instructed to co-operate, and to follow any plans which may appear most condu. cive to the end. His first effort will be among those who lie nearest the Settlements, whose children especially he will endeavour to bring under a course of useful and religious instruction. New Zealand. Two large Islands, east of New Holland-the northern, about 600 miles by an average breadth of 150; and the southern nearly as large. RANGHEEHOO. A Native Town, on the north side of the Bay of CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. | KIDDEEKIDDEE. A Native Hippah, or Fortified Place, on a River which falls into the Bay of Islands, on the west side; and near which is a Settlement of the Society, which has been named Gloucester. 1819. Missionaries, Teachers and Settlers, Messrs. W. Hall and King live at Rangheehoo; where also Mr Kendall had resided till his departure for England: Mr. Marsden has suggested, that, on his return to the Bay of Islands, he should This river has been named by Mr. Marsden the GAMBIER, after the Noble President of the Society. The narrative of his visit to it forms a very interesting part of the Journal to which we alluded in the last Survey. This Journal is printed in the Fourteenth Appendix to the Twenty-first Report, and is followed by other documents relative to New Zealand. It extends from July 29, 1819, when Mr. Marsden left Port Jackson, to Nov. 9, when he quitted the Bay of Islands on his return from this Second Visit. The Journal occupies 60 pages of close printing, and cannot be read by any intelligent person without deep interest. It contains an admirable delineation of the mind and manners of an untutored but noble race; and will both enlarge the Christian's view of the state of man, and will stimulate his desire to promote among these tribes the knowledge of the Gospel. Most gladly would we extract largely from this Journal, if our limits would allow. The unwearied exertions described in this Journal were renewed on Mr. Marsden's Third Visit to New Zealand; and ample reports have been transmitted by him of his intercourse with the Natives in other quarters, particularly with those who inhabit the bays and creeks of the River Thames, and those who occupy the country from Mercury Bay on the east coast across the Island to the west coast south of the Shukeangha, and between that coast and the Bay of Islands. These Journeys were sometimes taken in company with other Europeans; but, on one occasion, he travelled many hundred miles alone, in the midst of the Natives, but every where received from them the kindest attention. Having arrived at the end of February 1820 and left at the beginning of December, Mr. Marsden spent, on this Third Visit, about Nine Months in laborious and incessant exertions, his long journeys by land being entirely on foot, to open the way for the Kingdom of Christ, with all its present and everlasting benefits, among this extraordinary people. Of these exertions, Mr. Francis Hall writes There is not one in ten thousand, I think, who could, or would, have borne the privations, difficulties, and dangers which he has undergone. I pray that he may reap the fruits of his labours, by New Zealanders turning from the degraded state in which they at present are, to serve the only living and true God. Experience has brought the Society better acquainted with the real character of this |