lege, or ratHer, would the accommodation admit 

 of it, are inteiuled Tor i hem Hi large ; as, tim ing 

 the preseijt year, iJit; build injiT been assigned 

 to the London Miss^ionary Society » Tiie Mi>sicm 

 cliapel ii5 a ph\\n, but neat, building which was 

 erected by vohmtary contribution, And the fouii- 

 diition ofwhicli was laid on the 2BtU January 

 1826, Here, every sabbath, four services are 

 performed, viz. a Chinese service at half past iO 

 A, ; a Purtague>e one at 2 t>. 11, ; a Malay one 

 at 5 p. M. ; and an English one at 7 p. m., thus 

 affording the pleasing spectacle of the worship of 

 the true God io four ditfereut languages on the 

 same day in the same place. Besides the Free 

 school^ which contains about seventy boys, who 

 are instructed in reading and writing the English 

 language, there are five Malay schuols, four of 

 which are supported by the London Missionary 

 Society, and the fifth by a private fund . There are 

 also Chinese schools coiitaining a large proportion 

 of children, ako supported by the Mis&ion, and five 

 Portuguese schools j-ustained by private subscrip- 

 tions. In all ibei^e the scriptures and tr,iets 

 form the subject of reading, but I shall defer the 

 consideration of their effects, until i come to treat 

 of tlie morals of the p(>[>uhition at targe. 



Tbe drives of the in habitants are generally 

 round Bukit China," wliich liills present a pic- 

 turesque ?;ippearance, beingstudded with the horse* 

 shoe form tonibs of the L hinese. On the top uf 

 one of thesse are the remains of an ancient Dutch 

 redoubt, and at the fui)tof anr»ther are two wells 



* Bukit CMuA, Chiikeae hilb, of wUivh. there are 



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