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violence, has rendered life and property secure, and 

 has administered justice with a firm hand and a strict 

 regard to the customs and traditional sentiments 

 of the people ; that it has wellnigh extinguished 

 slavery ; that it has opened the whole country to 

 trade, and, by thus improving the facilities for sale 

 of the jungle produce, has increased the purchasing 

 power of the people, while bringing within the reach 

 of all of them the products of civilised industry that 

 they most value ; and that while it has strictly regu- 

 lated the sale of those products, such as fire-arms and 

 strong liquor, which have proved detrimental to so 

 many other peoples of the lower culture, it has en- 

 couraged the people to cultivate a greater variety of 

 vegetable products, especially sago, coconuts, pepper, 

 and rubber, and to improve the methods of cultiva- 

 tion oi padi. Lastly, the government has rendered 

 possible the establishment of a number of excellent 

 mission schools in older stations, where considerable 

 numbers of children of the pagan tribes have been 

 made Christians and trained to fill subordinate posts 

 in the administrative service, or to return to leaven 

 the native villages with a wider knowledge and a 

 better understanding of the principles which underlie 

 the white man's conduct and culture. The mis- 

 sionaries have exerted also among the Sea Dayaks 

 a strong influence making for peace and order ; 

 but they have hardly yet come into contact with 

 Kayans or Kenyahs. Mention must also be made 

 of the Malay schools which the government has 

 instituted and supported in the principal stations, 

 and in which many young Malays receive the 

 elements of a useful education. 



In all its undertakings the success of the govern- 

 ment has only been rendered possible by the high 

 prestige that the white man everywhere enjoys ; 

 and this in turn has been acquired and maintained, 

 not so much by his command of the mechanical 



