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 

 1831 while making his survey for the American Board. 149 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. 150 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. 151 They sailed June 

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

 the mission of the American Board at Bangkok. 152 They were 

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

 explore the neighboring archipelago for places open to Christian 

 teachers. 153 Their work lasted but a brief time, for while explor 

 ing in Sumatra they were both killed by the hostile Battaks. 154 

 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 i837. 155 About 1838 the Dutch govern 

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

 bidding missionary residence anywhere in its possessions except 

 in Borneo. 156 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. 157 



149 Williamson, Memoir of Abeel, p. 84. 



130 Francis Warriner, Cruise of the United States Frigate Potomoc 

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



145-147. 



151 Missny. Herald, 31:17, Jan., 1835. 

 152 Wylie, Memorial of Prot. Missionaries, p. 80. 



153 William Thompson, Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel Munson and the 

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



154 Ibid. 



155 Wylie, Memorial, pp. 97, 99. 



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

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



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

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



