>From every distant station, from Amboyna to Delhi, he received seeds
and animals and specimens of natural history. The very schoolboys
when they went out into the world, and the young civilians of Fort
William College, enriched his collections. To Jabez, his son in
Amboyna, we find him thus writing:--"I have already informed you of
the luckless fate of all the animals you have sent. I know of no
remedy for the living animals dying, but by a little attention to
packing them you may send skins of birds and animals of every kind,
and also seeds and roots. I lately received a parcel of seeds from
Moore (a large boy who, you may remember, was at school when the
printing-office was burnt), every one of which bids fair to grow.
He is in some of the Malay islands. After all you have greatly
contributed to the enlargement of my collection."

"17th September 1816.--I approve much of Bencoolen as a place for
your future labours, unless you should rather choose the island of
Borneo...The English may send a Resident thither after a time. I
mention this from a conversation I had some months ago on the
subject with Lord Moira, who told me that there is a large body of
Chinese on that island." They "applied to the late Lieut.-Governor
of Java, requesting that an English Resident may be sent to govern
them, and offering to be at the whole expense of his salary and
government. The Borneo business may come to nothing, but if it
should succeed it would be a glorious opening for the Gospel in that
large island. Sumatra, however, is larger than any one man could
occupy." As we read this we see the Serampore apostle's hope
fulfilled after a different fashion, in Rajah Brooke's settlement at
Sarawak, in the charter of the North Borneo Company, in the opening
up of New Guinea and in the civilisation of the Philippines by the