io8 Kenneth S. Latourette, 



and Slater of the London Missionary Society began work. The 

 former was there for many years, and his work and example 

 greatly stimulated American interest. Abeel visited Batavia in 

 183 1 while making his survey for the American Board/*** He 

 was welcomed by Medhurst, but his advances to the Dutch 

 churches on behalf of the American Dutch Reformed Congre- 

 gations did not meet with hearty response. ^^"^ The first resident 

 American missionaries were sent out in 1833 by the American 

 Board. Here, as in Bangkok, there were two races to be reached, 

 and of this first band of workers one, Rev. Samuel Munson, was 

 directed to specialize on the Chinese, while the other, Rev. Henry 

 Lyman, was to give his time to the Malays.^^^ They sailed June 

 10, 1833, with Johnson and Robinson, the men who were to open 

 the mission of the American Board at Bangkok. ^^- They were 

 instructed to make a short stay in Batavia, and were then to 

 explore the neighboring archipelago for places open to Christian 

 teachers. ^^^ Their work lasted but a brief time, for while explor- 

 ing in Sumatra they were both killed by the hostile Battaks.^^* 

 Undiscouraged by the loss, the American Board sent out two 

 additional men, Rev. Elihu Doty, a minister of the Dutch 

 Reformed Church, and Rev. Elbert Nevius, in 1836, and Rev. 

 William J. Pohlman in 1837.^^^ About 1838 the Dutch govern- 

 ment, heretofore indifferent, began a more exclusive policy, for- 

 bidding missionary residence anywhere in its possessions except 

 in Borneo. ^^'^ The mission was forced to move there, but did not 

 prosper in its new home, and when at last China was opened, 

 Doty and Pohlman were glad to go to Amoy.^^^ 



""Williamson, Memoir of Abeel, p. 84. 



^^ Francis Warriner, Cruise of the United States Frigate Potomoc 

 Round the World during the Years 1831-1834. New York, 1835, pp. 



145-147- 



^^' Missny. Herald, 31 :i7, Jan., 1835. 



^^- Wylie, Memorial of Prot. Missionaries, p. 80. 



^"William Thompson, Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel Munson and the 

 Rev. Henry Lyman, etc.. New York, 1839. 



^" Ibid. 



"^ Wylie, Memorial, pp. 97, 99. 



'"'Annual Reports of the A. B. C. F. M., Jan. 1839, and Jan. 1840, in 

 Missny. Herald, 35: 11 and 36: 11. 



"^ Ch. Rep., 16:12-13. In addition, there were in this Borneo Mission 

 Jacob Ennis, William Youngblood, Frederick B. Thompson, and Miss 



