6 A DÏSCOURSE^ <£e. 



These Programmas contain many impartant 

 questious^ as well genera! as particuIaTj relatiiig 

 to agricuUore, commerce, the means of removing 

 the insainbrity of Batavia^ the diseases of the 

 climate generally, and other poiiits whieh clear- 

 Ij mark the objerts of the Society. Among 

 these^ the followiag qaestioii raay deserve no-r 

 tice : — 



^' Bij wJiaf means of finesse do the PreacJiers 

 '^ andJvïissionaries of the Moslem f aiih succeed, 

 '' even at the present daif, in converting P^ans 

 ^' to tkefaith of the Koran, and in estaMlshing 

 '^ theni in thisfaith." 



Althoiigh it would seem that this qiiestion 

 might either have been answered generally bj 

 stating *■*■ that the Mahomedans at the present 

 ^' day owe their success principallij to their 

 '^ more intimate assimilation 'üoith those to be 

 ^^ converted,'* Or perhaps eventually by '"' a 

 V philosophical and poliiical view of the jïrst 

 ^' establishment of ihe Mahomedan Religion 

 *' on the Islands and Coasts of the Seas lijing 

 '' East of the Straits of Malacca and Sunda.'* 

 It does not appear to have been replied to in any 

 of the subsequent volumes. 



The view which I have just mentioned scems 

 to fall peculiarly within the province of the So- 



