CHAPTER VI. 



EVAVGELISTIC MlSSIONS. 



WhilE much encrgy has bcen put into 

 thc school work, the appropriations of the 

 Missionary Society have been spent cxclu- 

 sivcly in evangelistic work. 



The difficulties in the way of all evan- 

 gelistic enterprises are very marked. The 

 land literally bnstlcs with them. They are 

 chiefly : 



Kirst. Thc difficulty of languages. Thc 

 little handhtl of missionaries is aiready 

 preaching in these islands in no less than 

 fourteen dif¥erent dialccts. There are eight 

 dialects of Chinese, and the peoplc of any 

 one rarely understand any other, for the 

 Cliinaman imlike the Indian, seems to have 

 difficulty in getting other tongues than his 

 own. Then there is the Malay, the Baba 

 Malay (a distinet variant), thc Tamil, the 

 Javanese, the Sibu, and the Dyak. 



Second, There is the migratory char- 

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