32 BRITISH BORNEO. 
education and, through its press, publishes translations of 
the Bible, the Prayer Book and other religious and education- 
al works, in Malay and in two Dyak dialects, which latter 
have only become written languages since the establishment 
of the Mission. In their Boys’ School, at Kuching, over a 
hundred boys are under instruction by an English Master, 
assisted by a staff of Native Assistants; there is also a Girls’ 
School, under a European Mistress, and schools at all the 
Mission Stations. The Government of Sarawak allows a 
small grant-in-aid to the schools and a salary of £200 a 
year to one of the Missionaries, who acts as Government 
Chaplain. 
The Roman Catholic Mission commenced its works in Sara- 
wak in 1881, and is under the direction of the Reverend Fa- 
ther JACKSON, Prefect Apostolic, who has also two or three 
Missionaries employed in British North Borneo. In Sarawak 
there are six or eight European priests and schoolmasters and 
a sisterhood of fourorfivenuns. In Kuching they havea Cha- 
pel and School and a station among the Land-Dyaks in the vici- 
nity. They have recently established a station and erected a 
Chapel on the Kanowit River, an affluent of the Rejang. 
The Missionaries are mostly foreigners and, I believe, are un- 
der a vow to spend the remainder of their days in the East, 
without returning to Europe. 
Their only reward is their consciousness of doing, or try- 
ing to do good, and any surplus of their meagre stipends which 
remains, after providing the barest necessaries of life, is re- 
funded to the Society. I do not know what success is attend- 
ing them in Sarawak, but in British North Borneo and Labuan, 
where they found that Father QUARTERON’S labours had left 
scarcely any impression, their efforts up to present have met 
with little success, and experiments in several rivers have had 
to be abandoned, owing to the utter carelessness of the Pagan 
natives as to matters relating to religion. When I left Nerth 
Borneo in 1887, their only station which appeared to show a 
prospect of success was one under Father PUNDLEIDER, 
amongst the semi-Chinese of Bundu, to whom reference has 
been made on a previous page. But these people, while per- 
mitting their children to be educated and baptized by the 
