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MEMOIRS
REV. MESSRS.
MEMOIRS
OF THE
REV.
THF.
HENRY LYMAN,
LATE MISSIONARIES
TO THE
INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO,
WITH THE JOURNAL OF THEIR EXPLORING TOUR.
"
Wi
NEW- YORK:
D.
APPLETON &
CO., 200,
MDCCC
XXXJX.
BROADWAY.
H. LTTDWIG, PRINTERJ
72,'Vesey-st., N. Y.
PREFACE
The
estabUshed
Having-
mission
in
Reports
from
warrant an
neighbouring
the
to
that
effort
quarter
to
islands.
appeared to
ascertain
whether
PREFACE.
VI
With
and
Messrs.
design
this
Lyman were
sent
Munson
on a tour
forth
Some
it
was concluded by
telligent
and
judicious
which
cause in
they
number
of
friends
fell,
of in-
that
the
a me-
and
accordance
wishes,
the
\^ith
their
present
judgment
volume
been drawn
up.
auspicious
much
the
times
been
at
earlier period.
Up
tion
it
Had
has
to
the time
at Boston,
the
of
their
embarka-
memoirs of Messrs.
PREFACE.
Munson and Lyman
are
VU
kept
distinct.
extracts
initials
are
M. and L.
distinguished
by
the
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
Early
life
of Samuel
Munson
I.
acter in college
CHAPTER
His professional
studies at
11.
Attendance on Medical
Brunswick Connection with
Andover
CHAPTER
Early Life of Henry
College
Lyman His
CHAPTER
Lectures
in
at
Boston and
in
34
IV.
Attendance on Medical
Bi-unswick Marriage ReBoard
CHAPTER
V.
Residence
in
of the Brethren
ments
Improvement
Andover
Voyage
III.
in
57
Batavia
Exploring Tour
23
Character on entering
Conversion Consequent
Interest Missions
Scholarship
CountyMarriage
to
Employ-
pursue their
64
CONTENTS.
VI
CHAPTER
Journitl of Messrs.
VI.
among
their
Tour
of
of Sumatra
87
CHAPTER
The
violent
VII.
in at-
179
MEMOIRS.
MEMOIR
CHAPTER
Early
of Samuel
life
Munson
His
r.
conversion
His
character
in college.
Samuel, son
son, was
1804.
bom
of
in
Near that
of grace,
struction
New
subjects
During childhood,
of their household.
several
distressing apprehensions
conscience,
tender,
became
was
on account of
which appears
to
sin.
His
truth.
now
to
left
an orphan, by an
received
him
to his
house,
His
fidelity
him
to
each
member
was uniformly
2
of the domestic
treated as
a son and
circle,
brother.
and he
MEMOIROF
14
knowledgment of
was a leading
His
teachers esteemed
him
and
and
applica-
his
he frequently
of relaxation
at school,
retired,
to
At nineteen years of
no
me-
of the
washing of regen-
As
Holy Ghost."
Rev.
recollection,
"Labouring occasionally
istry in
New
in the
work
of the min-
in the year
IS 18, he
interest,
orphan.
As
ceived he
was an unusually
re-
my
acquaintance increased,
sedate, modest,
Were he
to
become
was an
I
per-
rejflect-
pious, I
young man
to
SAMUEL
study
15
the ministry.
for
commenced
M IT N
and
His
He saw him-
scriptural.
lost
sinner
and an
and
inter-
merited
destruction.
At
of the
was a trembling
he was slow
and experienced
of a change of heart.
likeness to God,
Saviour,
Though
peace in believing.
and
so
truly good.
others,
who
ob-
himself, offered
important
step.
At a subsequent
own
Christ
before
men.
it
to
visit,
to
take this
however, I
be his duty to
Accordingly he offered
was admitted
to the
church in
full
communion."
Soon
after his
to
At
seek a preparation
for
work of the
MEMOIROF
16
to enter
upon a course of
pre-
He
Academy
at
summer and
the
The
fall.
town
and though
his pupils
were
superior attainments
his
to
That
Christian decision.
first
and
time,
At the
ing.
till
the
fall
engagement
close of his
ron he returned
1825,
of
at
New Sha-
to
when he
Bowdoin
entered
College.
The
the close of
endeavours
first
" In
the
life,
1824
shows what
to prepare
was
Maine Branch
of the
a precious revival
Though
prayer to
me
good
in
for
many
way.
in the riglit
but
the
indulged a hope in
town of
New
God
how
up near
opposed his
ciety.
rect
difficulties
Sharon.
it
was
my
was
di-
desirous of doing
intimate friends,
wanted
mention
to
it
to
my
most
prepare myself
to.
preach
the
r E L
31
gospel
had
During
me.
we met he
culties
I told
a beloved friend
me what
He
my
toiling with
and
to
urge
my
diffi-
The
next
Latin Grammar.
patronage.
The
funds of
resolved to do with as
My
wants of others
next
my
all
long deliberate.
Directors,
wish
The
"
course I in-
not answer.
I did not
week found me
I
of pro-
able to assist
and wants.
tion Society.
my
But
destitute
I could
17
who were
I friends
tended to take.
ministry.
was
time
heathens.
the
to
U X
wants, as stated to
Indeed
I did not
while the
The
consequence
my
them
less
than
ceived from
"
But
books.
dent.
my
fifty dollars.
To run in debt for them would be impruTo borrow them was impossible. After every
effort to
procure
them had
failed,
sat
thrown
in
my way
by Providence,
2*
down with
an
obstacle
to prevent
I felt perplexed
my
and
18
My
distressed.
To abandon
offered to lend
feelings often
me
Though
all
dissipated
to
distant friend
my
This
distressing
was employed
When my
ly finished, I
my
studies at the
was compelled
constant compan-
to leave
my
class,
remuneration which
to college,
me to defray
and meet
and
The
bour enabled
up
go forward.
tears.
me
and enabled
my studies
found vent in
At length a
all
mercy
dispensation of
"
O F
doubts,
make a
and milk. The
I did
thanks-
object I
had
in
view made
me
willing to submit to
any
What
brought
object
to view.
is
and
already
inviolable springs"
This
much
and guid-
year in
SAMUEL
found
it
M U N
19
mind
to
study as he
wished.
"
What
adds
to
my
that one of
my
stances, has
sunk under
is,
frequently associated
We
We frequently encouraged
Nothing now
lies
before
me
struggle.
of
onward,
I should seek
friends.
I see
nothing in
When will
upper world
While
prospects be
and never-ending
sin,
the
of the
united
a uni-
!"
in
college Mr.
Munson
we have
his
study
spiritual religion.
reason to believe,
many
pious stu-
The
for
felicities
dents suffer
trial.
body of
exchanged
my
this
w4iile
and rehgious
a resident at Brunswick,
is
fur-
doin College,
with
faculty.
MEMOIBOF
20
''His
intellectual
character
marked accuracy
for this trait
some
than
of judgmeiit,
did not
college
in
He was
a person of
more distinguished
To
extent, there
judicious application
patient student,
ject
his powers.
which rendered
a sub-
without understanding
and
He was a
to leave
and
place,
and that
decision
On
decision in his
character,
for action.
the contrary, he
was a
cautious
man,
when
some.
he saw the
way
forward, he
was ready
"He was
to
in
which duty
to
him
obey the summons.
called
to
go
his fellow
of pity
and compassion.
When
he looked on the
and
who
dwell
affected
desires
SAMUEL MUNSON.
and
resolute purposes to
have
perhaps,
go
for usefulness,
Here
'
am
was
I,
which adopt
send me.'
living
prayerful with a
obligation to his
if
life,
any one
attention to
God
his associates
must not be
of their
was very
under
and Saviour.
when
well developed
to
that faith in
in college.
Few,
to their relief.
in stronger exercise,
ready
21
numMun-
His conscientiousness
his close
course,
own
his
his pious
on the
inclination
subject, as did
some of
he would have
He
always appeared
to
me
to
and improv-
unassuming
as a fine specimen of
his powers,
He was
modest and
melancholy in
his appearance,
constitutional."
To
do good and
to
"
MEMOIROF
22
and
son's practice
on the
Without infringing
pleasure.
he gathered a Sab-
The
skill.
sick
his
Its
and
faithfulness
visits.
to the students
fly
as a herald
But
Lord
and pray
inquire,
'
While
Lord what
wait thou
have
me
recol-
thank the
to
do
may I
?'
would be very
still
limited."
disordered
withered
The
and
"
sick.
Lord, revive
had gained
solid
and extensive
benefit,
closed
in
SAMUEL
M UN
CHAPTER
His
professional studies at
Andover
O N
23
11.
Attendance on
Medical
Connection with
Missionary Society of Barnstable County Marriage.
Lectures
On
in
and Brunswick
?)03lon
entering the
the
and
spirits,
intercourse with
congenial
engagements as
pro-
An
ment
spiritual religion.
who
where
Mills
their associates,
He reads the
prayed together.
and improve-
wept and
in the
first
He
is
assured by
many
exam-
in purity."
He
edness.
some
Thus
the
fire
to
'
preach
and wretch-
MEMOIROF
24
quenched in
whole
and
character displays, in
decisive
No
fanned
college, is
and the
to a flame,
improvement.
acquisitions
Few
knew
class-mates
he explored the
what
of his
diligence
field of biblical
Sev-
and
were
this period,
kingdom
The
of heaven."
following
be pronounced
strictly just
by those
first
very
acquaint-
Though
possessed of
He had
a sound
sliare of prudence,
a good
judgment, an unusual
The
many.
erting
solid rather
As a
His talents
than showy.
upon
his
influ-
He had
ence.
well tempered
sum up
was
J.I
MUN
U E L
directed
25
and
it
was
by knowledge.
To
a good degree of
and well
zeal,
all,
beautifully symmetrical.*'
The
and systematic,
which he
him
to cul-
tivate several
whatever quarter
his researches
the
"
sacred
The
firm
the same,
or the
text,
field
invigorate
men
to
conviction
hopes
one
was
life
in stated ef-
minds.
their
That
indi-
for several
whom
The
of
to
and
those
trains
of
thought which
final determination.
ser-
he could address
present one
brought him
his
At Andover the
consideration.
to
It
Munson
of
certain.
is
vice.
difficulties
grow remiss
and enrich
highest
of Christ to
of physical science,
We
the
an ambassador
the heathen.
In
which
it
MEMOIROF
26
is difficult to
There
analyze.
Hfe,
tour perhaps
is
a novelty connect-
a voyage
among
the
or
city over
in
the
Pacific,
re-
where
all
and enchantment
and the
the
vi^as
the
an-
which
which he wept,
across
ruins of
to her luxuries
such prospects
effort,
have
ings, that I
true missionary
would wither
for
wrought upon
at times so
have thought
Yet such a
longer.
call
before
and
toils
sufferings,
spirit
It is
Such
feelings
is
no
It
hke the
It is
the
of Christ.
It
which seeketh
missionary work,
feel-
spirit,
la-
my
stay here
I could
spirit is
more
if
to devote
an individual
himself to the
If
he
If
itself,
an
to
become a missionary
of
sufficient
is,
such an inclination
one.
inclination to
will,
SAMUEL MUNSON.
" But
it is
27
convinced that
it is
your duty
New England
to
go
'
You
you should be
lest
to the heathen.'
And
perhaps others
to be disregarded
but
it is
not of
itself
satisfacto-
ry evidence of duty.
" I
have been
to find
any
truth,
we must
it,
first
and then
divest ourselves
This
nary magnitude
but
it
is
a task of no
must be done.
The
The
In
population
own
of
ordifirst
is
the
New England
is
thousand inhabitants.
or
one
to
every
the
means
of grace.
But among
sand
souls.
thou-
MEMOIROF
28
number
the
of missionaries from
five
souls.
and
Christendom
one missionary
or,
The
all
to
a million of
States,
to one.
From
this
hun-
four
seminary previous
this
to
three have
eleven have
own
And yet
to
e.
i.
or,
less
while
places in our
heathen
retained
this institution,
by
way
of emi-
nary
any
because
it
missionary
first
to the Gentiles,
who
strove
named,
lest
foundation.'
"It
to
to
is
own
country ought
first
have
carefully considered.
When
Such
the gospel at
home, as
of Foreign Missions?
objections
since
much
to
spread
the establishment
A common
enquiry, to be
SAMUEL MUNSON.
be
cannot be
one that
sure, but
29
often
too
re-
peated."
Having
his
ir.ade
among
election
the various
the witness
Munson was
The
question
Him who
Mr.
things,
all
was
was a
suspected that he
From
settled.
no one
that time
"a
double-
Munson
cleave to
minded man."
The
of most persons,
''
God
it
were wrong
ill
to
Detained
health
omit in
this sketch.
my
had
customary sea-
Chinese mission
remembered with
my
soul
while
went out
unfaiUng promises
for
for
was enabled
after
God,
'-esting
on
his
dered millions.
" 30th.
lifeless
March
1st.
think
my
soul
my soul
life.
3*
in secret fasting
and
;;
MEMOIROF
30
thew.
"March
2d.
Fell
who would
my
man
spirits
gained
an abatement of good
feeling
which
for
owe him
everlasting grati-
tude.
"March
morning
Had a
3d.
that of praise.
" April
my
1st.
'
cally
wrong
;'
with that
some of
be- radi-
ference,
which
to
it
my
Excessive levity
need particularly
am resolved
to recollect
something must
to
is
one
guard
to proclaim hostihties
gain
heart,
the
thee victory.
To me
has been
this
by
set apart
my
it is
class-
the day
a season most
past
ances
fit
to
throw
" It
is
and
SAMUEL MUNSON.
The record of my
God are too
life is
my memory
deeply graven on
ing
31
through
in
All
my prepara-
in
college
and
in temptation
be forgotten.
to
Through
toil
in trial
suffer-
sent helper.
"
ment
my
of
object
blessed
O my
soul,
and
all
that
within
is
Without
my
'
future
Lo,
life
upon thy
am with
you always V
Mr. Munson's
first
it is
The
believed,
protection^
I cast
and in
viii
34, produced an impresuncommonly deep and salutary.
again
it
was
safe to rely.
His remarks
were characterized by a
exercises,
lofty
aim and
Both in
his
to
it
was
MEMOIROF
82
The
ver,
Mr.
Munson
Ando-
while a
member
gress, intellectual
and
spiritual,
at Andover.
Congregations in the
among which he
vicinity,
spent his Sabbaths, will not soon forget his persuasive appeals in behalf of the heathen.
shown
commenced with
some evangelical
His
doctrine,
to authorize
As
his
own
dis-
the discus-
sys-
men.
God, he strove
to cherish in the
minds of
Christians,
a single pagan
to the
knowledge
of the truth.
viii
Board as one of
This eloquent
4,
Munson
preached
their "
tribute to the
Missionary Papers."
"spirit
of primitive
SAMUEL MUNSON.
shows that
Christianity,"
its
33
author dehghted to
that
and
to
encounter sharp
was made
The
to
friends of
Munson had
ordained, proposed to
become
was
An
made
that
port
arrangement
county.
ced a
for this
happy
effect
to
soci-
moned
barkation.
em-
AIEMOIROF
34
CHAPTER
Early
life
of Flenry
Conversion
Lyman
IIL
Consequent
in
est in Missions.
Henry Lyman
Massachusetts,
oldest son,
Susan
and the
W. Lyman,
they resided
till
Northampton,
at
third child, of
He was
the
Theodore and
1827,
a few miles
herst,
was born
when
distant.
they removed to
Ambirth,
Henry was taken so ill that his life was almost desof.
While in that dangerous condition, as
he was lying in his cradle, his father, in an act of
paired
he should be spared,
The
Holy Ministry.
to the
to educate
infant's
life,
him
for
the
which hung
in
vows of
remembrance.
their
of
first
Lyman deemed
it
all their
strict
his parent
regularity maintained
domestic rehgion.
and with
HENRY LYMAN.
35
The subject of this sketch, when a child, was disamong his brothers by a prompt and
tinguished
and a
disposition
He
an early
also displayed, at
and
order.
period,
a remark-
Having completed
common
schools of
New-England, he commenced
His
to his taste.
lively
for the
all
his hopes
tion,
which he fancied
of a scholar.
Till
direc-
he marvelled
life
and gave
moderate attention
to
his
books.
Reviewing
his early
life,
Mr.
that he
''
Lyman
under the
One
servedly.
confessed,
to his teachers.
" did
smart
much
as he
had me.
pen of
iron.
are before
The time,
my mind
as
were yesterday.
When
MEMOIROP
86
at the
my
my
would your
father say
my companion
father say
'
It
was
!'
was
the response of
stride in
I felt
Every
thing around, as
What
exclaimed
that!'
'
I felt as if I
conscience,
muttered
boldly.
it
he heard
he heard that
if
my
if
companions, and
father's house, I
if
my
on
to
itself
have passed,
I see the
my comringing in my
hear even
and the
that oath
''
commandment.
tresspasses
was
upon
detected
rod.
For
by
this I
my
Detecting
smart.
me
view between
my
hell!
months
kept
my
me aside and
me to an half hour's inter-
again, he took
left
The
eye of
God
Once
change drawer.
father
too
now
to
This was
The
pains of
reform.
For
promise."
HENRY LYMAN.
and open
dilional offences,
several particulars,
Lyman,
horror
37
violations of duty, in
became
so frequent,
Mr.
that
back with
pursued.
Having- completed
preparatory
his
studies
at
Amherst
class, in
College, at the
commencement
of
1826.
A
fied
by
he
if
is
and a wholesome
religious principle
forti-
disci-
To
proverbially great.
as
and
scholar,
|i
to
''supply of the
"give thanks
of the snares
to
God
spirit
He
of Christ."
will
to
shun during
who
"
makes a mock
at sin,"
it
is
well
and seeks a
their
"
nigh
mouth
hoping
With no
confession,
My
to
Amherst
recollections of
his
in the
own
associates,
fall
of 1826.
MEMOIEOF
88
distinct.
most necessarily
liarly
traits
ardent,
were such as
of character
He was
to attract attention.
and gay.
active,
During the
al-
pecufirst
'
ploit could be
frank,
From my
first
Sociable,
favourite
com-
felt
should be consecrated
"It
was
to the service of
apparent,"' observes
Amherst
College, "that
tlie
good or
for
active mind,
God."
revered President
was
and
sired
At
aid.
panion.
of
ill,
times,
we
felt
him
in college,
and as he seemed
too
much
inclined
sway."
was Lyman.
"
The
officers
(in
view
were
all
dispelled
HENRY LYMAN.
which
The
it.
awakening
The
down.
it
and man-
is
face the
39
come up
and, as
boldly,
had been
this.
which
by the
invited
serious portion of
and
were, brave
it
first
was
I perceived
interest,
plan adopted by
them
The
room.
recitation
mies of
They walked
before me,
their
and
most
relisrion
in,
bold,
and looked
your religion
:'
can execute
me
any
in the face,
distinctly,
and
yet
'
it
which a wild
any
saying
by
we defy you
was with that
Sir,
college
shghtest breach of
or
contained.
institution
countenances most
all
which the
student
me:
before
energetic look.
my
Of
in
the
its
among
revivals
College, that of
his
a year
Those who
at that
maintained
religion, for
numerous
Amherst
for
He
God and
of
its
fruits.
hesitate to
God
mention
MEMOIROF
40
name
change, the
own
which
should forget
was
led
by the
the
But
perusal.
to
in
here record
it
lest
whence
'
way
particular
Spirit, I will
was
ac-
is
language.
''Lest
for
Some
Henry Lyman.
of
think lightly of
my
previous character.
"
The
was a
believe
I
was
awakening among
partial
And
quite anxious.
culing
'
ihe pious.'
most among
my
in
one of the
first
mock
prayer meetings, I
of
my
call
on God
time, too, a
this
native place.
subjects of the
many
as
fore-
About
my
was
companions
menced
ridi-
known
be
to
While, therefore,
soul.
and
At times
was unwilhng
my
Christians,
was
beloved
redeem
com-
sister
was
Being but
work.
often at
and those
friends,
to
revival
home.
saw
quite inlimate,
side.
The
thought of being
the world
made me
garded
warnings and
all
particularly earnest
at times
and
unhappy
entreaties.
alone in
left
;
still I
My
disre-
sister
persevering, but I
was
met her
HENRY LYMAN.
with
and
scoffs
Some
ridicule.
One
That
and
was
if 1
He might
He
wind.
an hour
as
seem
did not
well have
to care for
means
went
It
could go,
should be
talked to the
my
to get
An-
soul.
me
means
to his
keep
to
which was,
of
injudi-
in this strain
moment
me
were
made a han-
'
damned,'
friends
of this I
41
'
to hell I
was
if
for me.'
He
letter
concerns.
me
many
judged so
also
he talked with
at
my
illy
as to
tell
request,
sister's
as possible I
left this
and
into a
my
soul's
pity-
thousand
to
pieces,
and
In the
fall
was convinced
and
As
it.
understanding
At the
threatenings, a
My
"
vacation I deter-
my
arti-
mined
that
and gave
man,
As soon
me
there.
exertions, through so
me
for
my way
ever.
to entreaties, promises,
merciful
God
MEMOIKOF
42
meiit.
was brought by a
week
my
friends
Con-
contest doubtful.
my
"Before
health
was
from time
extreme
me
to
time
till
This
vacation
of wickedness in the
So great
and wonder.
had been
of under-
mining
the com-
mencement
now
lived
to the
a very
different
though
life,
still
opposed
laws of God,
voured
to
draw
my
dis-
wounding
On
the
and
their feelings,
that
to
gage in
"This
ing,
my
I rose
with such
had no longer a
17.
feel-
desire
seriousness increased
how
I continued op-
Tuesday, April
till
day
them know
frivolous conversation.
was.
to let
sensible of
to obtain
it
till
before
knew
my
not.
Wednesday mornbreakfast,
was
need of religion
I
made a solemn
HENR^T LYMAN.
would neither
VOW
till
had obtained
much; more,
very
how
to
knew
my
state of
He
formed.
feelings,
advised
and what
me
read the
to
had
fifteenth, six-
of St.
and the
fifty-fourth
fifty-third,
and
Isaiah.
retired to
a grove, where
o'clock,
my
came
to the conclusion
appetite,
get rehgion.
it
My
in prayer
and as
nearly 12
till
it
sin.
was
impossible to
me
conscience reproved
by saying,
to with-
that
unpardonable
of
him, and
left
stand
ing to
fifty-fifth
quiet
him the
resolution I
teenth, eighteenth
out,
not
my sins.
my class-
Luke
o'clock
and wept
class
because
believe,
At 8
it.
my
43
for
com-
endeavoured
to
The
reason
why
said
this
my
old companions.
and began
to
laugh with
my
Scoffing at
MEMOIROF
44
name
of God, laughing,
made
as
Well do
others tremble.
countenance of one of
my
He
me
remember the
we met
classmates as
ment and
pity
that
look
my
pierced
soul.
It
could find
relief,
was by launching
revival
was
me
The
in
for
me to
his study,
had broken
was
but
the time
all
to turn.
in college.
me
and prayer
with
in the
serious nature
"
forth
my vow
there
still
it.
and conversed
me that although
was hope
I left
the sin
him with
make any
more vows.
"An
alarm
time increased
that time I
for
till
the next
was reading
this
my
Wed-
class-mates offered
might be alone.
There
me
spent the
HENRY LYMAN,
when a
P. M.,
45
class-mate
that
my
sins,
and
away
degree
hardly
me,
left
direct
him,
knew what
prayed
me
for
saw myself
how
rang
distress,
and lead me by
my
be in the
wrong way,
myself aright:
to
and yet
knew
was
in very great
My
mind seemed
to
Maker, but
found no
Some-
relief.
tell.
though
as
under conviction,
degree, for I
the
a!l
time
to derive aid
to
to
least.
to the highest
my
prayers,
had not
and
just
began
right-
to perceive I
not been acting from the heart, I had not been "
and
It
had been
endeavouring
It
appeared
ving,"
be
seemed
Holy
his
fifteen
torn in pieces.
entirely to
evening prayers,
for
and
to
to direct
About
to seek.
such a
to
As soon as he
some time that God would
for I
grieve
left to
me
to do.
Spirit, in
to
This alarmed
the
it
lie to
was
my
this
had
stri-
heart.
wicked
MEMOIROP
46
and thought
yet
my
heart told
my
had done
me
had
In
all
not,
might
find
that
O,
how
aimed a dagger
have
stirred
up
in distress.
thought
smib
tell
When
me what
if
he had
he would not so
much
was hke
would
should do.
I loathed that
It
what
at my heart,
my feelings.
was required
not.
had been
what Imust
friends
distress, I
to
in hopes
knew
in thi Bible.
told over
do,
go
situation I
in
and
my
and body."
Without giving the narrative
period,
it
may
suffice to state,
and
conviction,
in the
Mr.
to
it
from
this
was only a
exercises of
alarm
an unutterable
delight
Christ.
Lyman was
change
Holy
gave place
Lord Jesus
entire
that
this
Spirit.
Before
it
took place,
it
appears from
infalli-
self-love.
HENRY
voursj
as
is
tion,
what was
LiTM AN.
47
Precisely the
their effect?
same
a deep sense of
These
of Go:l.
characteristics,
belonged, in a high
David Brainard
nor
it
well known,
is
of
how the
which represents men
easy
it
to see
one
season
for the
seemed hushed
of the year
An
in silence.
all
nature
almost perfect
still-
unwonted power.
Before
hills,
the
sun
seven of
my
with
disappeared
beloved
fel-
It
was
all
in a neighbouring grove
our minds.
spirit.
L. was absent
Maker
was ringing
for prayers,
in deep
and just as
L. entered with a
48
BiEMOlROP
image of
No
despair.
When
child.
and yield
into tears,
urged
to give
to
do
all
Hohat shall I
trusting to his
tians, 1
own
doV
efforts
'
Bro-
at the
?'
aloud,
still
exclaim-
hngness
to
that there
save every
him
to
returning
at the
was an
infinite
prodigal,
was
evening
altered
"
saw
again,
During that
and he seemed
truly
an
his ardour
of Christ.
ing
hiiri
All
to the service
would come
to
"
H
Would
N R Y
fi
dowQ and
sit
L Y
MAN
49
No
my
person of
a deeper
At such
No
pray
some
After stating
conversion, Dr.
his
He
man
not a
adds
his
Lyman's
From
"
and
that time
consistent.
He
to
change in
heard him
manner."
particulars of Mr.
Humphrey
was
who ever
one
Thenceforward he
a respectable standing in
After that I
ated.
evident
to
me
was growing
his friends
had he
'
and
fulfil
life
he
should be
highest expectations
the
Soon
But it was
to time, that
w^ould, if
How much
lived,
all in all,
the
in grace,
ber of college.
and beheld
when he gradu-
more than
spared,
which
as I
his class
after the
elect.'
man
suffered
much on
MEMOIROF
$9
This
ed.
source of
last
with motives to
life,
The solemn
he made about
mental of much
spiritual benefit
which
and found
it
it
the occasion of
on the Redeemer's
faithfulness
and
love.
which he kf pt
This evening
I think I feel, in
my entire dependence on
my affections towards God.
unusual degree,
Spirit to
draw
" Feb. 7.
the
an
Holy
fear all
my prayers
my
my
Awoke
heart
heart
" 14.
more
this
this
evening
corruption
feel
constrained to search
and wickedness
like devoting
glorified.
still
short week
myself and
all I
have
abound.
have
felt
to Christ
HENRYLYMAN.
more
more
willing to do the
some time
my
past
whole
the world,
" 27.
Read
my
was changed
thought
heart
am
some time
I not deceiving
myself
after
selfish,
this
Edwards' conversion
as he was for
for
sad reflections at
envious affections of
and
God than
will of
how many
yet
51
"28.
Give
breathe;
if so,
"
is it
way
possible that 1
the patience
March
1.
Retired
Lord
all
much
the
Though
the day.
I neglect to
trials
shall I complain
my
feeling this
hearts, all
David had
in his
own
same
because I have
"
infinite.
night rejoicing in
last
God, yet
than I
easier
morning
temptation
to
trials,
complain
too,
and
lie
says,
shall strengthen
your
pious strain
This evening
felt
that I should
senior year,
Mr.
Lyman
"
MEMOIROF
52
seems
to
have
ing in his
reflected
own
much on the
At that
heart.
clanger of trust-
period he
made
the
free
church
from
" a desire to
and
become
often lament-
renowned
in the
ed
bitterly
"
Nov. 23.
O, that
fulfil
'
for piety,"
might remember
Walk
in the spirit,
this text
and ye
shall
with bosom-sins,
conflicts
Had
'
Thou
'
art worthy,
;'
'
the throne
Sal-
and
desire to
make
Christ
known
to the
is
life
heathen
Lyman's
began.
heart,
That
it
beyond doubt.
and
pagan world.
Matthew one
Why
the heathen.
much
is
M A
L Y
H E NR r
it
that
N.
God
53
me
gives
plea-
them?
meditation
way
the Lord
if
preach
and
might thoroughly
deemed an
him
to
seek Divine
aid, that
he
which he
the heathen."
Subsequently,
when on
his
way
to church,
mind
soul
and
longed
longed
to
in
a ten-
for
have
" the
my body,
spirit,
vineyard."
Writing
know
relative in Montreal,
what
not yet in
labour.
My
Spirit.
The
with
to
prayer
My
power.
heart
my
tored savages
feelings, if
is
My
the heathen.
pend upon
God
designed
should
come
God
drawn out
duty,
laying
irresistible
without a preacher ?
go ?
field
is for
he says, "
my
happiness,
down my
mean with my
life
my
among
all
de-
untu-
present views
and
now
MEMOIKOF
54
seems
me
Yet the
to stand open.
One
tremble.
false step
responsibility
makes
my
useful-
may
destroy
ness forever."
It
was not
he made known
dies that
how
till
his soul
matter was
panted
first
The
solicitude
work of missions.
for the
spiritual renovation.
to
visit to
Lyman
Mr.
region.
is
replied
there
Canada ?
destitute but
It
makes
my
soul bleed to
Africa.
hammet,
sun,
bow
to
moon and
Every day
millions to the
thirty years
to perdition
some
carries
and
Every
stars.
from
Now what
there.
seven
this earth.
shall
be done ?
"
By
divine leave
and
The
be sacrificed
That
for
home, country,
or friends."
memorial
to
seek
heathen,
which he showed
tent relatives
and
for
fellow-students.
While
at
Am-
HENRY LYMAN.
55
der
whom
Of
four brothers
to
who were
God and
without hope in the world," three have since professed their faith in Christ.
His endeavours
to
members
The
slightest
lege
he was accustomed
gratitude,
and made
it
to
welcome with
to
col-
heartfelt
in these spiritual
failed
deepen his
to
To
college.
Mr.
Lyman
the
new
Till then he
religion supplies.
a stranger
felt
to those
and
motives which
seems
to
have been
The
of his course,
it
"
When
he came
of sin-
to himself,"
which are
pre-
MEMOIROF
56
"To every
thing there
is
it
scholars,
Mr.
Lyman
tion.
it
Humphrey has
when
it
graduated," in 1829.
commencement was
"
His theme at
spirit
of
John
and
force
HENRY LYMAN.
CHAPTER
His, Professional Studies at
With a
holiness,
tlie
keen
Mr.
Attendance on Medical
Marriage Receives the
Board.
knowledge and
Lyman commenced
IV.
Andover
57
fall
This impor-
of 1829.
life
is
true
several sea-
His jour-
a godly
sort," in
ual defects.
The
in reliance
on divine
deliberate purposes,
aid,
some
noticed in
When
now
spirit-
formed,
which
his associates
to
soon
reminded of some
failing,
as occasional
and
Though
who had known him
in college,
yet
to
inconsistent
and
vile.
The
MEMOIR
58
OF
in-dwelling sin.
Lyman could
Paul in
say, "
ments of saied
his
abundant labours,
I
He could
do."
or of sccial intercourse, to
religion.
In
prayer.
this duty,
Lyman
it
abounded.
which appeared
earnestness,
exercises,
to the
interfere
Mr.
to
One thing
not permit,
No
him
Mr.
to
seeth in secret."
instance
was
To
sure to
Him
that
wound
his spirit.
train of
Those
desires for
the
salvation of
men, which
This
is
evident from
and prayers
in behalf of the
the heathen.
At an early stage
Mr
HENRY LYMAN.
Lyman
announced
spend his
to
59
determination
in missionary service.
life
"
Dear Parents,
have employed
few sen-
letter.
10, 1830.
my
leisure
which
tion to
cations.
have considered,
or
is
call
He
'
and
He
it
unto
and how
life
'How
shall
'and
;'
life eternal.'
whom
on him in
me
and how
'
not worthy of
his cross
they
is
him
of
whom
they
a preacher'/'
"I have
of
my own
also
and, 4,
I
My own
examined,
country.
2,
3,
character, talents,
and
feelings
and
my going to the
my days in building
up
Christ's kingdom.******
"If ever
is
Indee
it
has
rny fu-
to
them
MEMOIROF
60
"Perhaps
what
if I
may
should
meet an
and
grave;
early
I shall
my
hope
it
me
have
joice to
for I
go, if Providence
should so order
m ide
inyseH willing,
if
These
"Henry Lyman."
A
had
large shar^ of
and reading
his meditations
and wants of
imevangelized nations.
in
much
research, he prepared a
dan
countries," after
dissertation,
the
which
substance of
has
a heart-rending statement of
by numerous witnesses
and
ters
of
It
facts corroborated
Long may
professions.
gone
tract.
it
and middcn^d as
and
nameless wrongs,
they
are,
by
oppression
is
not enjoyed
Lyman,
that he distin-
minary.
larities
The unhappy
disqualified him, iu
a measure,
for patient
HENRY LYMAN.
and
investigation
rigid analysis.
61
Whatever
came
getic
and rapid
subject
were ener^
control
and
selves,
more
far
more valuable
arranged.
properly
re-
in themIt
is
not
a good
"endure hardness as
to
Mr.
Lyman
accus-
fatigue.
As a
among
tomed himself
to
abstinence and
such as
Lyman,
their
field
own
in
Mr.
mean
time,
his
accustomed ardour.
by conversation,
6
letters
In the
and preaching,
MEMOIROP
63
he constantly endeavoured
and gain
of missions,
to
additional patrons
to
the
cause.
On the
after
a short
to
Miss Eliza
among
visit
his
Lyman
were charged, by
and
inquiry, to
They were
Sumatra.
the
northern
part
on a tour of observa-
of
next,
if possible, to
made known
philanthropy.
then
to
explore
Thomas
from Christian
eligible locations.
Near the
Commit-
tee say:
"You
climes,
and
and opposed
spirit'
to
uncongenial
it
is
befall'
most
you.
likely,
'Not know'
Afflictions,'
'abide you.'
H E NRY
Your
may
labours
L Y
MAN
63
for
Jesus
Christ
among
to
and that of
has pledged
to you,
for
none
everywhere, and in
Lo, I
am
'
When
will be
'
fire,
'
As thy days
My
circum-
all
and
grace
He
comfort.
is
suffi-
with thee
the
so near
is
when
rivers
they
for
I,
Jehovah,
am
thy Saviour.'
Israel
my
thy God,
'
Touch
prophets no harm.'
into singing,
and
I will give
you
fear in such
such promises.
love to
him and
and
'
hills shall
break forth
all
Be ye
faithful
you a crown of
life.'
unto death,
What
need
May
his cause,
and
and
the mountains
you
to trust the
and
filled
with
MEMOIRSOF
64
CHAPTER
Voyage
V.
On the
to
Munson and
Lyman, with
embarked
their wives,
for
tour.
at Boston,
Batavia.
among
to
the Siamese.
votional exercise
on
who
them
the harbour.
At the trying
ticipated
juncture,
embrace with
their
With many
shall be
Lyman
"
we were
my
under which
meet
no more.
says
to
of
There were
so unexpect-
was thus
father
I feel
pre-
and mo-
myself laid
MUNSON'AND LYMAN.
your ten thousand kindnesses in
for
Under God
life.
character,
my
owe
you
to
salvation.
to
my
past
to
trials I
ask you
to
my
ask your
have wil-
me
help
God
praise
wished
and
all
education,
wished also
my
65
and
profanity,
and
but
I will
my
wanderings in
forbid-
den paths, the voice of parental caution and parenI often comtal prayers was not entirely lost.
plained, in early
cation
now
can make,
is
life,
of your strictness in
thank you
to
pray
you a thousand
for
for
it.
you.
my
edu-
fold."
a new,
fast-sailing ship,
with
she was
fitted
out
on the
principle of en-
By
the
was
easily enforced, to
the
In twenty-three days they reached the 10th degree of north latitude at that point exchanging
;
and a scorching
heat.
"
The
burning rays of a
MEMOIKSOF
66
and the
and melancholy
procession, are
which
stretches
Along
a broad
like
l^elt,
of the most
some
ill-fated
slaver'
pirate prowl
ferocity.
this
and
guages and nations, as though such a mass of pollution could not be gathered
these
constitute
pirate.'
one kingdom
a
'
slaver,' or
'
selves in great
was
as a slaver.
They
tow^ards us.
To
called,
our
w^ere charged.
what seamen
danger of an attack.
discovered ahead,
were
small
call
sail
carronades, nmskets
After
we saw them
away, as we supposed,
pense,
an
pistols
cross
to the
their
moral character."
All hands
and
12th, Mr.
vessel,
fit
black
emblem
Munson
of
describes
try
exile
is
M UN
it
my
trials
consohng
is
07
Father's house."
that
AND LYMAN.
terminate
to
yet
M,
of redeeming love."
From
when
to look
Lyman
way
of
any
make
disposed to
efforts
for
lors.
to
When
above."
that are in
it,"
set
their
error of his
Lord
willing,
may
my
dear
sister,
it
off.
it
me
not
all
should
so.
To
tell
were
country and
you the
those cheerful
feel
So one thing
my
of
of
state
with
"The
to his sister;
no more.
friends, drops
one "sinner
I looked for
already disappeared.
and
be found to have
least
ways."
Munson wrote
rizon,
things
these labours
from the
on
"affections
truth,
to
produce
my
could
feeling,
;
but
heart beats
returning
home
after
a long ab-
MEMOIRSOF
68
Home
sence.
am
going
home
to the
for
my
is
field of
my home
uesfulness
I desire
heart
years.
liberty dwells,
country?'
where the
say,
country,
my
many
no
is,
there
my
is
M.
other."
"
Two
or three things
a good display of
their
seem
there
be prerequisite to
to
remarkable
The
qualities.
The
ap-
am
seems
to
be a w^ave of
and the
light
many fathoms,
traced
amused by
In
in
succession,
their
The most
kind,
we were
greatly
which
this
and perhaps
"
feet,
The
Several nights,
ship.
move many
so
is
curious
I could
left
compare
a
to
fiery serpent.
At
till
four o'clock in
officer
we were
was
called,
and the
lead
reef.
He supposed
The Captain
no soundings.
69
repre-
On
found
it
to
be
full
minute as not
the light
to
be distinguished
when brought
to
was found
to consist of illuminated
jelly.
more
line
was a
by a transparent
'points^ united
When
was minutely
continued to pulsate
till life
was
M.
Duncan passed
extinct."
dian Ocean.
With
Lyman
suffered severely
for
make
on the passage.
Addressing his
latitude,
position,
sister,
MEMOIRSOF
70
not
tell
wide awake.
is
In
Under the
to see land."
The
first
palm
the
distinctly see
sight,
which
them
at first led
to seek the
missionary service.
" It
was
the answer of
M.
my
lifted their
God
hearts to
It
them
in
for
M.
prayers."
;"
and three
or
On the
hurst, of the
to
them a
London Missionary
table.
cordial
invitation to take
Society, extended
rooms
in his house,
and
sit
at his
themselves of this kindness, and subsequently experienced repeated proofs of the sincerity with
it
was
offered.
The
which
which they
bouses in Ratavia,
city,
is
" Ours,
with nearly
of one story.
It
all
the
stands on the
coffee,
Some
it.
71
We cannot do
window.
All our
land.
we
If
wish
to
ride,
and indeed
to travel
a few miles on
foot at
any
prove
work
fatal.
We
as requires
can
and
sit
no physical
We
may be spared to
"
As
yet
festival in
are
A few
among the
heathen.
before
it
were burning
Fifteen or twenty
candles.
and a
I laboured, while a
priest
member
must
we must
see
its rites
was
of the
we
reading prayers.
it is
and do such
At present
labour long
we have
pagan worship.
a
It is
study,
effort.
but
and
and
to
cere-
human
of glory.
tians, in
God
primitive Chris-
down heathen
MEMOlRSOF
T2
temples,
and demolished
and
their idols,
that, too, at
lives.
is
tract,
now
they
have
We
tracts.
to
have uniformly
Our
left.
no want of encouragement
and
there
We
is
be very miserable
to be
but
labour.
to
have
should
know
that
ray of divine
called
is
jected to
light.
The
labour to which
is
hot,
and
we
M.
happy."
Not long
under an
"
The
too
serious
Lyman would
fears
were
speedily sink
were
are
much
for her.
less,
the whole
At present she
spits
way,
more
surpiised
The
if
will of the
to
continue
Lord be done
!"
many months.
L.
73
to " rejoice
Almost the
with trembling."
first let-
ters
father.
It
on com-
and
diligent
finish
affecting providence to be
to do.
under
Pierc-
the divine
ing."
now
free
in time of need
it
from outward
him
led
to
affliction,
and
In the
was
all
first letter
first
of
Christ,
sible that I
less 7
it is
There
even
it is
says,
for the
on paper
so.
Is
it
pos-
cannot be mistaken
home
"
to rest.
If
it
were
wish we were
all
left
behind.
bitterly, as I
For once
I wished myself at
weep,
think of those
who
home.
MEMOIRSOF
74
the time.
thea found
and
you
to the care of
Him who
all
In his
last
and commended
has promised
be the
to
We
E.
prayer.
had made
the self-denials he
to prepare
me
for
name
his
to
forever
pray
for so
for his
and
long
final
L.
change."
Agreeably
began immediately
to acquire the
Malay language.
Munson commenced
the study
of Chinese.
" Besides the study of the languages,
which
vices gratis,
come and
all
who
set
a week.
dropsy, &c.
ulcers,
;
we
many
body and
of
visit
set of
mortals
could.
them
We gave them
medi-
We
to all of
attended as well as
have,
receive medicines.
some with
we
up a dispensary
portions of scripture,
Be-
we have
these,
almost every
plexity
patients
It
clay.
come
75
house
to our
is,
it
M.
medical books."
Nov. 28.
^'
Last week
I visited
The
^'
a native market,
The
ing.
the
way
would
books
as
we went
collect,
to
hundred
We
and
tracts,
all
them, I gave
to
carried
up two
in
gone.
" In the course of our
The
largest
nese burying-ground.
idols,
and a
It
is
immense
The
burying-
a great curiosity.
Just in
the great
temple.
it
is
acre.
feet high,
rica*
in
contains three
an
a Chi-
is
Some
at
nese temple.
Batavia.
walk we halted
They
are
immense mounds,
forty or fifty
It is
not the
ties
The tomb
Ame-
of a deceased relative
is
the
"
hong
MEMOIRSOF
76
i.
his
e. literally, it is
or in plain English,
the tomb
M.
Their communications
this country,
no time
committed
to their
work
The
to their hands.
from a
letter to
" It
a blessed
to
it
me,
my
and
following extract
itself
prayer
and
I shall see
thing
else.
ticulars,
feel,
Time
around a
it
that
is
it
may
my
moral vision
me
felt
go on
till it
will
have
by no-
to state par-
more confident
to
The
many
encounter in
t,he
enemies
yet in
the
name
of the Lord
we
shall
so that
fired
trust
M. S. of Barnstable county
work, and I wish to bind myself
enterprise before
glorious,
Lyman
the A.
moral being.
in
in Batavia,
and sacred
is
is
and patrons
to friends
In
his luck.
it is
money on
"wind
shall conquer.
'
They
quickly.
'
'
Behold
come
Lord
'
and
my reward
is
77
with me.'
so,
Even
M.
am
"I
specting this
tirely
island
enough,
community
it
to
The
ago.
reason of this
is
have not
have written
towards
were a century
Those who
obvious.
directed
inquiries
their
this,
intent
Such
on gain.
and
re-
oppression.
inquire
Others,
still,
population, in-
and
Princes,
means
tion.
cast
around
to carry their
the
anxious look
for
discriminately been
ambition;
the
made
objects
of oppression,
conquerors.
too,
and the
in-
and
in-
Con-
themselves
Christians
"
tians,
who have
has cared
wept in
for
7*
and
Who
cast
has
around
MEMOIRSOF
78
him
and sympathizing
the anxious
philanthropist
Christian
inquiries of the
their
plored
their
Who
God?
almost answer
"It
Christian
gospel.
might
not one.
true, that
is
to the
But
let
for the
Lord
let
the
The moral
means
we might
expect.
is
The
far
Malays,
who embraced
Mohammedanism
remain are
fast
Even
would
tract,
have never
even though he
assisted
in the distribution of
among them:
gratitude,
knew
have
hundreds of books
and
may
dwindhng away.
in
nor so preju-
lead us to expect.
the
the bulwark of
considered
have
of judging,
with apparent
attention.
Indeed,
Mr.
priests
in
the
79
This
of Christian books.
is
of
consistencies
men
about
The
am
greatly to the
fully convinced,
to
the
be made.
is,
main
of the
spirit
of
its
that
down
it
now
that
Such an experiment
in iron bondage.
Our prayer
in pulhng
God, would go
is
interesting trait in
holds
an
their character,
this strong-hold of
communication
following, from a
to
John
among Europeans
in the
be altogether ascribed
"
My heart
is
to the climate
and
after
till
wine
is
the
Wherever
bed-time.
morning
table
is
strong drink
makes
its
appearance
like water, in
quantity consumed
at
Formerly
Padang, that
it
it
is
diminishing,
was
with dinner,
abundance, and
terrible.
I believe
but
so pernicious in
obtained the
when
decanter-stand of
still
the
it
is
its effects,
Malay name
of Pa-
MEMOIRSOF
80
more
them
or,
'
nail into a
man's
Bring
me
'
the white
since, the
twenty years
It
;'
Mr. Vangrale, of
nail.'
and the
of the table
canal
then
"The
sit
in the
day-light, drinking.
till
American Temperance
influence of the
here.
felt
to the legs
chairs,
in the water
drove one
coffin.'
'
dined
my
all
making
States.
Our temperance
ships,
temperance move-
and temperance
when
Besides preaching,
and
opportunities occurred,
of his chapel.
captains,
L.
Medhurst in the
Conformably
to
stated services
their instructions,
which
God
it
was
and prayer
to
among whom
Christ
which few
In
striking incidents
81
and
fall
winter.
On
with
In a
Munlet-
We
Spirit of
God
will
We
desire for
from labouring
He
heathen."
same
as
when we
We are
last wrote.
daily trying-
Our
progress
is
slow, but
we
own
"
Our sphere
any
enlarged to
tended too
of action as physicians,
I feel
far.
Indeed
extent.
my
is
might be
already ex-
upon.
it
They come
come
to
us
to inter-
Lord
to
is
and we cannot
in this
way enabhng
them by our
words.
us
actions, before
to
hope the
speak effectually
we can
do
it
by our
MEMOIRSOF
82
"We
The Lord
Such
willing,
we
shall
embark
M.
ment
Neas and
Sumatra.
Dutch Govern-
In a
joint
communication
Rev. R. Anderson,
to
measures taken
"
Dear
Sir,
nothing
ted
******"VVe
in
respect
to
little
was improved
recreation
seemed neto
make a
forty
miles
interior.
both
expressed
themselves
favourably
disposed
and
in the
to the estab-
As. however,
we
83
liberty,
and
cember
last."
The
and
lead-
'
as well as
countries.
the
among
these
neighbouring continental
show
they wish
to proceed.
still
upon
principle
this
They have
accordingly
sent your petitioners hither for the purpose of exploring those places not pre-occupied by other bene-
volent societies.
Their instructions
are,
that
we
proceed
first to
then
to
whom
they
of labour.
The
their
hands
addicted,
and putting
points
into
out
MEMOIRSOF
84
the
way
commend
our
Excellency in
council assembled."
" Tlie long delay of
an answer
many an
to this petition
anxious thought,
prayer, although
we
could
In an
weeks
,
he informed
since,
received immediate
handed over
fairs,
On
in-
Committee on
to the
the petition
that
us
attention,
Ecclesiastical Af-
of
inquiry, Mr.
it
was
so,
begged
for
As soon
another copy.
as
more stamped
was placed
The
in his hands.
passed.
Another journey
was deemed
Buitenzorg
petition
was found
was not
regretted,
to
inasmuch as
it
afforded
an oppor-
in
which the
work
of missions, they
"From
this
it
to the
add
Mr
governor,
ad interim^
benevolence
is
and while he
85
is
men and
"In
operations thus
the
for
praise,
far,
prospects
future,
and renewed
diligence
on our
part, to
im-
committed
While we
to us.
mind the
call to
pro-
be,'
we
fer-
vency of
spirit
that
have them in a
that
you
grace.
become us
still
greater
will
remember
Your
missionaries,
and that we
degree,
us
at
we
the
may
request
throne of
"Henry Lyman,
"Samuel Munson."
Having
During
and
we have
who would
On
"
for
seen,
those
soldiers."
MEMOIRSOF
86
their families,
strength,
and
" receive
their Lord.
was
of
communicants on that
Mr. Medhurst and
fifteen.
who were
on
To
their infant
son, the
As they
son signified
retired
to his
Mun-
was
him.
field
of
that in
little
one a
the
of
"He
mind
go" towards
CHAPTER
VI.
From
among
of obser-
narrative of observations
and
select-
comprise a continuous
with the leading
facts,
their tour
ed
87
rise.
by means
their arrival at
their leaving
Batavia
till
matra.
"April
7.
Embarked
have had
my
heart, if I
the grave,
'
will.
me
ferocity of
for so
to
it
more unyielding
Father,
anxious forebodings
fio,
In looking forward
many
'
find
or,
if
my
I
untamed men,
untamed
wife in
must be
beasts,
or the
^
Even
MEMOIRS OF
shall be
me.
I
my
language.
began
to
more and
say to myself,
hope again
To separate
"
Still
the
'
ship, before
depths of heathenism,
leaving
plunge
is
still
Still
same
"
Our
scene.
and Malays.
twelve in
number
viz
while there
is
scaicely
" April 8.
though
gently,
Sunda.
land,
ago.
it
Recognized
many
islands
The
coast of
Java
is
now
" April 9.
coast of
it is
months
four
then
months'
Java were
points of
straits
much changed
drought
and
last vestiges of
fast disappearing.
On
our
the
left
With
few
89
hills,
inhabited by the
fession
the
exception of a
and marshy.
It is
Lampongs, Mohammedans by
pro-
we had the
phin
is
gaudy
ocean.
The dol-
is
the
exquisitely beautiful
tints
in
mode
of taking
body
is
them
made
of
is
wax
The
this
wings made of
This
flying fish.
is
when
fastened to a hook
it is
By
that he
is
"April 11.
M.
for
and thrown
but
Blessed be God,
and obtaining
back when
my object is
No, no.
if I
name.
and reap
the reward of
8*
I could not
my
labours here,
to suf-
return
by seeing
MEMOIRSOF
90
the
kingdom
pie to
know
God
of
made right.
Our passengers
among
established
these pea-
and
eternity all
in
will be
"
Dutch
a lieutenant in the
consist of
a French Catholic
service,
We
had
this
The
cussion.
lieutenant
had
allowed to by the
lie,'
'
very
on the same
much
priests.
level
Yoltaire ten
read
With him
it
was
'
all
He is
&:c.
endeavoured
ted that
dis-
and a
infidel,
of government.
my
knowledge of Malay,
limited
language only
we can
I regret-
in
converse, prevented
which
my
pre-
dency
who
to
make
what they
in favour of
profess to be,
New
its
doctrines
and
precepts
lives
its
of those
precepts, particularly
its
April 13.
and gave us a
fair
L.
clouds cleared
ten-
trees,
and
fields
away
coast.
are all
in sight.
many
The
murdered by
their
liter-
officers are
The
three times as
numerous
as thos3 cf
East.
Singapore
not a matter of
ally collected
officers
(See
It is
surprise that so
men.
a nar-
told us of
assassination.
91
A crew of
men
thirty
American
and
ships,
tribe in
the
"They
No
most needed.
The
when
consequence
is,
depen-
their help is
of them, especially
Many
Not a day
which
One morning
quent
is
him
stepped
him again
down from
several times
flat
heard
always in the
observing
struck
acted over
castle,
is
ships.
fore-
and
This brought
warm
end
MEMOIRSOF
92
He
of a bamboo.
who is
Yet
was
humanity, what
if this is
I shall
two
The
o'clock.
in search of
cruelty ?
my
first intro-
anchored in Pulo
Bay
at
The
of the bay.
We
duction to Sumatra.
I could
is
captain, a
Dutch
head
at the
officer,
civil
We
party.
came on
to
blow fresh
after
we started, and
found
it
was
to let the
soon
Our only
alternative
the spray
We
It
lee shore,
roughly wet, I
went
first
mortification, that
"
set
in search of the
my
foot
he had removed
We found a family of
We
on Sumatra.
Malays
to
our
Bencoolen.
in his house,
to
They
who,
was not
it
served
up
We
Malay method
to resort to the
93
fingers.
"
The
rest of
the
longer in
Fortunately, I had
shells
on the beach.
my supper
bivalve, I finished
without further
diffi-
M.
culty."
my
captain,
and
others.
"Had
helmsmen, who
is
broken English.
He appeared
When
ened man.
httle
spoke of the
way of
salvation,
troubled in all
go
And he shook
hearted sneer,
torment
to hell
'
put
!'
who can
further,
ment
bear
it
seemed
his
actions,
When
and endeavored
of God, he turned
an expression
that
it
'
It is
a hard say-
MEMOIRSOF
94
"
Went on
shore to see
if
could be done.
" April 20.
The
people here,
wheels
solid,
among
Buffalo-carts, in use
are of
a peculiar construction
about three
feet
in
the
the
and
diameter,
like
and
ingress than
by a small door in
"
one
feet wide,
front.
by
five
buffalo.
dows of
day.
height,
velvet softness
The
was not
grass
far
to-
saw
The
most
elastic
Turkey
in
New
carpet I ever
soft
and agreeL.
able."
"April 21.
in the
At
At ten
lage of fishermen.
o'clock,
a horse and
we
set off
"April 22.
Went
small plantation of
this
morning
spices.
The
to
examine a
nut-meg, (hux
much
95
tree,
The male
tree
on the female
seldom bears
tree
may
be
same
The
time.
shape, size,
bursts
fruit is
much hke
the peach in
When ripe
and appearance.
partially covered
The produce
not
the fruit
of
an acre
lbs.)
per
aromaticus)
and shape
tree.
it is
much unlike
not
The germ
blossom,
is
it
In size
if
permitted to
clove.'
The flower
a perfect combination of
and pleasing
all
that
The
is
It is
spicy, fragrant,
to the senses.
one
common cherry
is, when gathered
of the blossom
is
the
differs
annum.
clove
about 328
lbs.
per
into
is
Broff.
The
the plant,
This valuable
natives are
now
and carrying
article of
it
eagerly inquiring
into the interior.
commerce promises
to
be
on the
'
assistant resident,'
permission to distribute
a few
tracts
and obtained
among
the
MEMOIRSOF
96
Chinese, of
whom
Went
len.
which
out
Tried
to
say something
of whom
had not a
tract left.
to
who
one Chinaman
my
turned to
English Testament,
I
grateful.
promise that he
the
There
from 5000.
Went
Europeans.
borough.'
skill
and
It
are,
in
or
Dutch
not far
twenty
it is
at least
now
in the East.
many
encouragements
were an
labours
among
might
with
be attended
the
happiest
M.
The town
is
built
bank and
cir-
effects."
"
to
active missionary
culating books
it
in the
Perhaps
industry.
effort
fifteen
also,
that
is
in possession of the
missionary
I re-
him an
for
him with
left
Christ,
Met with
it is
to
Pulo Bay.
Al-
for
9t
the place,
generally anchor at
we
paid
our respects
He
laboured under
of a perfect flu-
Nevertheless, he
interested in our
his
to
was very
announcement of the
We
work
to
At
population.
first
at receiving them,
part of the
till
met a
many
Malay
I taking the
distri-
priest
with
whom
tracts,
of
after
on with them
his
people, I
know
not
till
his
"April
many
request of
not, but
my
return to
to
in
Whether
all
was
it
for books.
23. This
morning,
at
o'clock,
we
near the
"April 24.
and deep
vales.
MEMOIRSOF
98
"April 26.
This
morning we were
in sight of
Padang.
They
habited.
Many
These
are low,
lot
of one sohtary
man
I al-
saw
cours-
covered
to
fohage.
The
their
very
cast
"
richest
was more
than any thing I had
pictu-
scenery, altogether,
At 6 P. M.
witnessed.
became
the islands
rising abruptly
bluffs,
before
The
anchorage
is
The row
kathil.
the
dang Head
is
bold,
in
the
magazine on the
in from the
from these
to
Pa-
extreme.
and
M.
Ex-
and town.
top of the
hill,
staff,
little
together
On
sents
itself,
beach.
and
On
also
proceeding up a
river's
mouth
pre-
itself,
little,
open
the river
craft,
to view.
day in company
Enghsh
Baptist Society.
for
about
five
regulations.
to
years
first
there successfully
the vicinity,
all
out as a printer;
and laboured
lived at Bencoolen,
99
Soon
after
the place
la-
Mr. Evans,
who was
and laboured
five years,
health.
He
is
among
vicinity,
Tappanooly and
in
the Battas.
He
gathered
much
him
health compelled
From
abandon
to
the
two
ere
ill
station.
he and
manuscript collection of
some
rampore; they, or
would
may
copies,
be obtained, and
some use
perhaps be of
to
future
mis-
sionaries.
"
down,
three,
part,
which
and
with
is
on the borders
Tobah.
six there.
rice
It
was a
and houses as
fine
far
as
It
MEMOIRS OP
100
Salindong
called
is
and soon
trade,
who
begged
Mr. B.'s
District.
They went up
who came
to
health
ill
at the invi-
Tappanooly
in
with a
for
chief,
to
them with
ple received
well
joy,
first
white
came
visit-
ed the country.
"The whole
population
and
feel
and
blood.
to fairly block
renced
nal,
"
not on account of
but thinking
They
its
carried
sig-
a charm.
it
which the
all
the chiefs
read to them.
They
discussion whether or
then entered
moral law.
They
which was
flag,
also
a long
had dances;
one
to
o'clock,
A. M.,
The assembly
to three o'clock,
P. M."
M.
the
into
English
locks
reve-
being a national
a public meeting of
called
in the vicinity, at
ries
in such crowds as
skulls
of Hindooism
dress of the
bul-
wo-
They
length,
(for
beheve that
"The
lake of
101
Tobah
is
rise
and
fall
of tide; this
spirits."
L.
"April 30.
Padang
to
people.
The town
in
Padang
ated on the
an inconsiderable
is
river,
place, situ-
To
sea-breeze every
day;
The
healthy place.
is
is,
river
It
enjoys a fine
is
The
its
mouth.
sang.
scattered here
Exclusive of
of
soldiers,
700
free
Europeans, 200
slaves,
poor
Nyas men
whom
2000
native
country.
The
They
9*
plain,
hun-
Chinese,
40,000
civilized
Chinese are
some speak a
there are
than in
are
their
many
of
Httle
English.
them
European merchants.
MEMOIRS OF
102
They do
this is
all
Malays.
to the
left
"
With a
would do
silver
families,
are able to
by
is
shop.
In-
They
all
They
intuition.
any European
distinguish
counterfeits, of
word
wire,
credit to
tools of the
all
able to read,
petty merchants.
have a temple,
all
of
They have
"
for
"
want
little
fast
it is
going
but
to decay.
has been so
to officiate,
that
it
much
in-
must be taken
M.
down."
feld
by an earthquake,
"April 30.
but the
of a minister,
Their
deserted.
is
This
rable patriarch
with
silver
settlers
a truly vene-
and
hair flowing
silver-grey
upon
103
long,
He
his shoulders.
in
of
to translate
an evening
views,
modern improvements,
for
customed
and yet he ap
a congregation, in
in the church, to
that language.
''
May
1.
noon went
after
little
length
read
gave away
Mr.
with old
meeting
I left fifty
who wished
Intfeld,
more
in
to call
his
to
'
holder to a feast
This boy's
came
to invite
him and
when an
the post-
murdered
was immediately
seized
into the
world.
it
and eaten
whereupon he
for
Captain B.
expostulated
to
;
come
'
0/
"
MEMOIRS OF
104
the chief replied,
yourself, but
abide by
tracts
ed
3.
as well as
is
it
my country,
and 1 must
L.
Went
among
nearly
it.'
May
"
'
the law of
it is
the Chinese
all
could read
everywhere well
found one old
tracts,
receiv-
man who
but seeing an
worshipped that
for his
M.
To-day we
by
six
He
is
pay
to
all
May
4.
manned
two months."
L.
a respectable congrega-
to
tion in
to
soldiers
and
citizens.
gregation.
5.
officers of
It
seemed
to so large
May
of the
all risk
Preached
government, the
"
two months.
expenses and be at
good
Rajah Ma-
boat, furnish us
"
in the
Formerly
name of
Jesus."
a con-
hope
M.
he
the idol,"
"
if
Me-
Menangkabow
is
105
tlie
on the royalty of
The
their ancestors.
sovereignty
down
The sulwhen he
tan
now
comes
a salute
receives
and
here,
Bangy
as far as
is
of.
nine guns
any native
and
village,
in that, only as a
no pay from
receives
The
and
is
said
he
real authority.
is
man
to
or datoek
per
fifty dollars
have that
It is well,
own
Moco-Moco has
native ruler of
it
head
his people,
Still
his
added
to hfe
to notice
him,
district
however,
annum.
recently died,
them
acter.
a kind of super-
who were
He was two
and
formerly over
traits
of char-
is
very
much
and
especially corres-
"May
6.
Was
goods which
making
busy
we have
this
morning packing up
Saw
the
MEMOIRS OF
106
captain of a
is
Dutch
brig just
He
nong
which
Stolis or Si Toelis,
is
Gu-
Mohammedan
village,
which
is
hke
trusting to
we
invade his
Pulo Batu contains about 5000 inhab4000 Nyas, and 1000 Bugis, Malays, and
dominions.
itants
Chinese.
Bencoolen,
reads
it.
He seemed
all.
to
understand the
way of
salvation
and wicked.
as foolish
this
At
my
invitation,
we endeavour
Christ
tracts,
on
mind the
his
necessity of
which
by the
to-morrow.
is
spirit
of God,
for
and
"May
so
7.
spiritual
;
guide
so did
we
Employed
Chinaman, alluded
him
Bencoolen,
ble.
fur-
making
his friend, prayed with him, gave him some
and promised to obtain for him if possible an
ther to impress
pray,
he called
to yesterday,
my
to obtain
mother when
one here,
send
entered college
in the
me
107
way of
Lord send
what
salvation.
with
to part
it
his Spirit,
has been
it
The
was a hard
me, and
to
It
struggle to
but
I shall
never regret
it.
to the resolutions
Batu
to
Nyas
"
also
He
the
letter to
Malay
chiefs,
and another
on Nyas.
chiefs
made
to
gov-
He
Borneo.
missionaries
recommend Dutch
ground, he says
all
the same.
He recommends
make
and
May
9.
pering us,
"
We ar^
morning
in the
we
clear
As to missionary
life,
it
was
distant.
country, but
reside in
bid
my
pros-
Lord
it
was
I left
in
my
I resolved to go,
house and
father's
company with
my
it
was
to sail
wife, to
society.
with pleasant
MEMOIRS
108
OP
a Christian people,
Now
the work.
end
work of preparation
the
We
completed.
all
a pleasant
in
to
(Captain
among
the
left to
in
civilization,
say,
'
Why
have
was not
New England ?
by some other 1
But no
a leap
perils of ex-
I left over
why
and
'
Town-
new country.
an
We stand now
ploring a
at
circle of friends,
on the verge of
is
a snug parish
Lord send
that promise,
'
Lo
am
feeling.
ed
it
to enter into
was read
every word of
was pleasant
it
;
my
prayer
soul seem-
was sweet
to
was
hands
for life or
and
to
death
all
was
it
pray
he has raised up
whom,
to assist us.
away from
in
It
this last
may
cease to
up
lift
theii-
109
voice while
sinner remains.
"
May 11.
Not wishing
night.
to sail
Captain Townsend's.
evening has been in
this
still
table of
and no
perhaps, to
observed
out
is
A cup
it.
bed
of
&c.,
but
it
will be best,
then
is
the
bathing,
first
dressing,
served
up with
coffee, tea, or
when
exercise,
till
wine, or
have
thing
which
all.
At
at
which wine
tity,
wine
to
is
removed the
tea,
quan-
to
the cloth
room
is
after
drawing
a stand of brandy,
gin, (fee.
&c.
Every gentleman,
many
exceptions.
Where
the
110
MEMOIRS
English customs
OF
style of living,
as at Padang.
much more
New-England
12.
boat,
which
Our
L.
We
May
morning
it is
an
old boat,
ble.
At four
with them.
than
"
it
small,
is
five.
and
uncomfortable.
Malays
at
intolera-
is
is
trying to patience
o'clock, P. M.,
let
because
down anchor
rather
a sheet.
stir
May
13.
Found ourselves
this
morning abreast
dressed,
Priaman
Sumatra.
"
We
diers
is
The
sol-
Captain
"He
gave us
many
interesting
accounts
is
re-
inhabited
MUNSON AND
by Paris
people,
Dyaks
have
to
who
I.YMAN.
more
are
Ill
than the
civilized
forts,
enter their
murdered.
people,
danger.
''
Priaman,
like
coast,
is
large
and
beautiful
mountains.
plenty.
wears
It
would point
it
and
principal port
harbour
its
M.
or
Rajah.
and
ally large,
built as
bechaza
or
"He
is
an
inveterate
pong
of
2040
guilders per
but he
it,
from
this, for
month
to
men
bally-
forty feet
opium smoker, as
proofs.
his eyes,
He
is
solitary
this
not,
cam-
income of government
for
make
is
opium.
asked of the
was the
persons, the
portico to
gave lamentable
however, alone in
2500
(consultation) house,
ple,
it
bally,
and
of Sumatra, were
defect
is
high
Its
It
by
surrounded
plain,
'
until
he had
belonged to government
MEMOIRS OP
112
and explained
trouble arose,
fully
which he was
retaining
to
it
He would
"
interested,
teach his
be glad
own
children.
have schools
to
established,
who can
persons
The
read.
instruct
priests
at
their houses.
"
There are
one
twenty
which a
place, in
priests,
(mosque,) a
Mesjid,
way
dirty,
little
his excellency
upon
priest resides.
of salvation,
gal,
both
miserable,
much
tin-
good- will on
sides.
"About one
soon
left
o'clock,
Priaman
"May
15.
we weighed
Yesterday
and
anchor,
L.
far astern."
we were
tossing all
day
without wind.
"
Mount
Ophir, one of
was
all
day
in sight.
us to anchor
and
mountains on Sumatra,
The want
outside, in sight of
of
wind compelled
Pulo Panjang,
The
to
cessantly.
" After a
deck.
little
The
was calm
air
was
cool
and went on
and refreshing
the night
shore.
At
my
and the
the land
friends I
me
of the objects of
113
had left.
thought of the
the causes
my present circumstances
in
my
As
present pursuit.
and
thought
to
that this
is
to
me
bidding adieu to
my
my
them, Farewell
we
felt it
I felt as if
friends forever; as
if
saying
meet no more in
to
many and
roll
Neither shall
known,
till
and return;
on
I see as I
am
know
seen, or
the heavens be no
more
God
^'
is
the
we
call all
nations
a solemn
have no
M.
to
left,
anchor, and
all
first
am
voice of the
It w^as
in thought,
gy
as I
Ayer Bangy,
and
the slum-
till
it
The
and the
wish that
sweet, but
days, months,
parting,
days of
you no more.
I shall return to
seasons will go
The
this w'orld.
years will
la-
impressed upon
earthly existence.
shall
field,
be performed, I
Ayer
coast, in the
Bafi-
Batta
10*
MEMOIRS
114
"
The
OF
pre-
Rawd
He had
of the
Rau,
or
long,
country.
as heavy a beard,
is
head.
"
This
is
Mohammedans,
"
trict,
after
being shut up in a
and
horses.
Mandheehng
fort
so
and escaped
district,
to the
forts to
whether
replied,
So
<
it
Perfectly, if
all say,
and
so w^e
man
it
treat
"May
16.
soon
after,
anchor
day-light this
ing, near
low,
till
morning
Pulo Poegago.
and
we
cast
advance of
this
morn-
This island
is
mostly
trees.
Half a dozen
reside
and
He had
here,
buffaloes,
goats.
115
its
owner
an
quite
intelligent
man.
(Mandheeling
district.)
Toba
we
declare ourselves
district,
He
advised an entrance at
by way of Tappanooly.
the
Englishmen
Says
if
or Americans, the
us to be Dutch-
as friends.
"Our
conversation,
on
to spare
our
lives.
here,
two
on
and
discussed, with
lead
them
"
May
no other apparent
to suspect that I
17.
effect
was a Padree."
than to
L.
or four species of
calHng
to
monkeys
set
up
their
other,
Three
shrill cry,
with such a
"
The Sumatran
shore,
Passed
this
M.
left it
for
Pulo Pingie,
to
is
MEMOIRS
116
At the
drees.
time,
OF
it
habitants.
He
superstitions, as
any
of wine
hibited
it,
but because
tended
to
make men
it
was
pro-
Nor
worse.
did he abstain
but because
if
a Malay ate
The Nyas
it,
it
to fall off.
and
to
or
ambuscade.
This
spirit, if it exists,
trafl[ic
annum
are
now
which has
in slaves,
by the
The encouragement
village to be continually in
Even
the child
who
is
man
way
may never
The Rajahs seize
find his
foreigners,
water,
their subjects
to his
;
home
again.
MUPfaoN
I.XMAN-
AiTr
117
their
hands upon.
May
"
outfit,
in
18.
It
my
the
in
and ammunition
fire-arms
list,
they ap-
But Mr.
Ward
while
joined
saying, that
others in
all
it
go where
to
much
that
and
and
all
insult,
and insure
us,
must
confess,
my own life
to
no
him we
trial
be taken, as
for
to
However, God
Lord going up
Oh,
But
scruples.
way
will lead
one
us
In
of escape.
L.
trust."
ing, in
my
fact,
on the contrary,
respect.
natives go armed,
and
to worship, I feel
New England
opening
my
Bible, I
Sabbath.
This morn-
known
of
late,
who
often
be the greatest.
shonld
opened
reproved.
Perhaps
cautioning
me
to
it
this
to
is
portion
the voice of
beware,
lest
and
my
spirit
have,
I
felt
Master,
of pride
or
BLJfijaoiKS
118
who
myself,
Who
say within
to
shall be the
know
feel
that
best report ?
too well
am
in
know
spirit
has wrought
among
which such a
effects
missionaries, to think
My
prayer
is,
that I
may
to
be delivered from
world
this
world
God
it.
a name in
to
come.
am
willing that
my name
should
interesting.
Sometimes
imagined
at others,
with dark
shrubbery
It
was
rich
"
to
me
and
a
and varied
May
spots.
;
19.
new and
all
died
The
and
vases.
wind was
stir
after breakfast
away
and
drifts, trees,
fair all
night
but
Just
when
the
wind had
They
are
o'clock, P.
Pulo Batu.
on the Post-holder.
called
119
Went to call at
Some of the men met
"
Bawa
a cam pong,
us,
Tobara.
and that
gods
cam pong
their
rites
therefore
made
past times.
At
tion.
great ravages
and swept
islands
first
off nearly
am
sight I
formed
athletic
than
altogether
saw one
&,c.
M.
These
of
them
He assumed
the
an
it
The
among them
in
constrained to call
They
better
to the
disease has
we
are
them
Malays.
Exceedingly
atti-
and
with
is
drawers, or a bit
some
had
M.
truly astonishing
ornaments
MEMOIKS OF
120
with as
eat,
lander will
much nonchalance
sit
will
tropical sun,
over the
as a
New-Eng-
utes, but
"
nudity,
may
and
few weeks
perfect state of
all
infants, apparerttly
naught
day
but a
mothers' arms, or
them from
which from the
shield
to
the reflection of
The
a few min-
ground,
in
in
in
and
in the winter.
fire
sun's rays
it
sit
talk,
ly endure.
''
is
a group of islands,
Island,) from
called, as
a romantic
rock.
"
whom 7357
are Nyas,
are
;
of
making
in all 7810.
"
Bawa
They
intelligent,
we
of the A.
M. with the
Post-
Nyas
vil-
independent, and
friendly,
than the
They
much
be
to
these parts,
then explained
schools.
to
to
have
them how
their
his house,
with one
at this they
king could
their
another
121
We left them
much
gratified
whom we had
and
so long prayed,
hearts."
"
May
22.
gata,
an
by
far
The
'^
ten,
services
is
made when
there
is
which he
"
We
islands
The god
is
for
spirits,
their
and
in the centre of
whom
an epidemic
there are
sacrifice is
in the village.
are sacrificed to
for
bad
likenesses of
whom
no compensation
to the people.
the village
When
receive
make
but
them
sell
priests,
on Segata,
and the
priest
receives a rupee
passed
Hyo and
holds a bechara,
or perhaps more.
11
and
and
there a
MEMOIRS OF
122
At
we
campong
arrived at a
but
the head
dance at the
vil-
lage.
see us
half-past ten
rangements
for
After
but as
making some
we pushed on
breakfast,
we
ar-
the
to
next campong.
Our way
''
our interpreter
to
we wished
to
square,
way
by a narrow
gate,
many
were building
apology
for dressing.
up and
put,
cooked.
saw a
Immediately
with the
feast.
hundred yards
enclosure, one
sent
We entered a walled
cut
When
we
He
village,
after,
intestines, into
thirty
in
sort
boihng pots,
the square,
rice,
of
they were
of
and
which we
The
among tlie
who had brought hogs to be
different vil-
killed at the
feast.
"
The work
of division
123
Not a murmur-
flying
and
flag
was
flag, besides
two
or
three
others.
We
were led
and ascended by a
principal hall.
the
flight of steps to
us on the
for
they
all
make
At
anival.
and we had
serve the
full
our
at
the
waS
dress
and ceremonies.
On
the
same
or
twenty females in
dresses.
it
an
bronze plume in
of
dancing
and around
their full
front.
Around
collars of
their
neck
many
pecuhar workmanship.
From
wood,
to
fifteen or
bells
and a small
to the
species
of
MEMOIRS
124
OF
shell.
Beneath
to the other.
was a
this
sarong,
others of
beauti-
silk,
fully
yellow
scarlet or
or thirty
body.
in the ears,
The women
and
of the peng-
was
less
The
Many,
especially
head
fingers
and a
and
anus
right
,-
and
ciii
dress than a
few
his
on one
circle,
side,
to
could be so called,
was
vocal.
if it
The
it
circle
All were
who
One
saw
sometimes consisted of a
The
hundred, though
and the
right.
perfectly well.
many
and moved by a
left
but
and short
kris
strips of cloth.
women
on the
iniiuense liug in
had no other
men on
profusion of ornaments
sort of
besides a
it.
The
Some
bride
and
"
The
little girls
They
rear.
but at length
and
"
was brought
it
warm and
sparingly,
dis-
brought up the
we
and we
in,
of pork, cut
We ate
us food, which
offered
It consisted
refuse.
125
up
declined
could not
in square pieces,
cold.
We
to
was very
dif-
ferent.
"
and confusion,
others
filled
with
filth
to
neatness.
"
When we
had
distributed w^hat
few presents
till
warlike manoeuvres.
presents, saying,
and
all
'
this
we
brought,
and
The master
From each
made
of gold-
Visited the
ed out
I
for four
opium
shop.
hundred and
it
M.
and
took
we
The
how many
month.
of the
little
MEMOIRS
126
OF
He
fool ?
with him
answered three
for
making
fellow
his
make a man a
then remonstrated
men
fools at ten
L.
cents each."
"
one
formerly-
been connected with the mission school at BencooHe inquired if I knew Mr. Ward, at Padang.
len.
It is gratifying to see
were remembered by
all
with
of such
but the
The
efforts.
effects,
their schools.
cause,
the blessed
it
is
connected
consequences
true,
has ceased,
be
effects, will
men
felt
through
eternity.
which God
designs to
superstition
break down
and
strongest bulwarks of
the
idolatry.
The
disinterested spirit
mind even
of a heathen youth,
can ever
circumstances
M.
efface."
" Wherever
This appears
worth of
it
will
it.
They
are open
the Malays,
national
few
doit's
nese or Malays.
which,
the
and
frank, far
villainous duplicity
more
one becomes
127
he
is
led
"
May
24.
Set out
We reached
man
reef, so
for
Bono.
to
miles.
souls
morning early
this
to
L.
abhor."
We
penghooloo.
dom
answered
was no
there
all
priest
and
He
our inquiries.
on Bono
and
was necessary
stated that
when
make
but
the people
were
sick,
priest
it
The
hung beneath
are
to
little
The
killing of
murder and
lie
he
sum
is
fined
to the
done.
penghooloo
receives
this,
lit
tie or
wife,
If a
is
seldom
and the
no worship; though he
man
he pays a
however,
is
is
Adul-
fail.
other below.
and
he divorces his
hogs
or doctor's pre-
if
the
tery,
sacrifice,
is
is
con-
the most
MEMOIRS OF
128
powerful of
upon a
He
all
He
of men.
beings
affairs
on a whole campong.
solitary individual, or
family or village
make
supplication,
To him the
when visited by
The God
below,
spirit,
and the
which men
father or
The
suffer.
turns
"
May
25.
called to
inform
Bambavo Jenoovoo
or
campong we had visited in his abwas now at home, and would be happy to
Segata, whose
sence,
This
see us.
gence, and
in
man
is
two
interviews w^hich
certainly one of
sion.
He
reside
dren.
compels us
to
decline
Iregetthat time
the invitation
to visit his
village.
"
to
all
May
26.
pay our
This morning
respects to
Simoe
is
man
of
we set
it
now under
as a sort
of sove-
his jurisdiction.
His
is
on the north
Nyas
true
style
The
hewn
is
His village
on a
built
access to
We
stone steps.
side of
Batu group.
largest of the
129
by a
it is
is
in the
about seventy-
hill
un-
flight of
We
his excellency,
about thirty
floor.
We com-
delay,
and went
posed.
man,
loquacious,
who
and rather
is'^a
sharp-sighted old
conceited,
answered
much
M.
apparent frankness."
Hb
"
appeared
would be
all
ap-
quite, interested
rejoiced himself,
in
oiir
plans
and endeavour
to
"
we have
The
seen.
The
ders,
boy,
worked
of
an
alternately
air
pump
or syringe,
which
directed
the coals."
wooden
and thus
at the
cylin-
principle
bottom of each,
MEMOIKS
130
May 27.
'
spread our
sails for
away from
regret
Nyas.
I confess,
when
turning
a degree of
marked
strongly
is
my observations
far as
too
The
be passed unnoticed.
to
o'clock
seems already
it
The
"
At four
OP
extend-
In some places
on a bed of hme-stone.
it
The
continual
channels
;
is
tions are
making
rapid conquests
"
From
among
form,
is
this
The
soil is
uni-
man
can
Sebranun,
Some islands
now united and
form one.
miles.
and
So
to
a distance of four
Bono
reefs
that were
to
Und6r proper
produce
all
cultivation,
the necessaries
luxuries of a tropical
are as cheap
and orange,
and abundant as
Malays.
The
of Nyas.
rice
used
is
among
the
and
and
Potatoes
the latter
Nyas and
the
num-
abundant
rally
flourish well,
in Java.
bers,
Among
climate.
fruits,
is
131
monkeys
lite-
swarm.
"The
incessant beating
of the
heavy waves
rolling in
smaller
nut
trees
islands
are covered
and shrubbery
excellent
of the
with cocoa-
entirely
while the
an
Some
and sampans.
hills
and
vales
adapted to
all
gation.
"
On
mangrove
dom, by thrusting
their
innumerable
to the
'Thus
far
shalt
thou
MEMOIRS
132
come and no
farther,
and here
OF
shall thy proud
waves
be stayed.'
"
The
Nyas
principal
is
sago and
marshy
The
oil.
an
immense numbers
shores, besides
reefs of lime-
The
damp and
from a
is
food of the
They
stone.
Of
fish.
abundance on the
of shell-fish,
the
fishing
air
coming
that
confined cellar,
sea-slug, so
an
Nyas men.
much admired
coast,
and
sold at
exorbitant price.
"
be called
Twelve
or four-
make a
quart of
oil,
which
gallon.
Even
at this
a competence, but
"The
truth of
climate
this
a moment
price, so
may
is
said to be
will not
is
unhealthy.
be questioned
and swampy
which
abundant are
be esteemed wealthy.
vegetation,
low
the
soil.
soil
if
we
The
look
Most of the
covered with
constantly springing up
and
decaying.
an
The
wilderness.
and there
by a Nyas
acre occupied
133
whole
village, the
effluvia arising
is
of sago,
load
it
However,
with pestilence.
am
fully per-
(and nothing
session,)
is
and the
forest cleared
away,
The most
mate.
village
suitable place
sea-shore.
is
An
tropical
is
is
is
enclosed by a sub-
many
selected at
cli-
that has
destructive pestilence,
"A Nyas
would be
it
in thickness.
Next
to the shore is
The two
and as
a narrow
and
ends,
On
the right or
well, fifty or
is
a large
and ten
deep.
it
left,
by a
flight of steps
fills
his
bamboo, and
into
re-asis
an
The
The
row
12
The
houses are
MEMOIRS
134
all united,
They
doors.
They
On
is
sides the
This
OF
a large
the front
is
to
an
this is
the house,
whole
is
tionate,
side.
by
each house.
hall,
is
Be-
occupied mostly
is
for
it,
seat.
which answers
The
a window.
for
being as high as
of the
feet,
head-man
is
as a stand, before
The
a stone, elevated
which the
village
attap roof.
all
little
is
the
enclosure, beneath
an
free
is
from rubbish,
for
On
in workmanship,
surpasses
and
cleanliness,
any thing
"
who
are
no
less
The
men
are
them
is
attended by a
feast.
among
that are
135
A birth,
or death
by
Scenes of
feasting.
festi'
are
vity
pesti-
unite
After
enough
is
number
The
sent.
dissatisfaction or
disturbance.
" Their
is
mode
of burying
is
a neat
ner,
coffin,
and
made much
after the
islands, the
where there
is
is
the body
European man-
a high
village
can be
back
surf,
is
near
in
a word, where
carried
was
hassee,
stroUing one
called, are
and
laid
man
on an elevated
deposited in
In the Batu
where no
so they
if
solitude
it is
land,
The body
peculiar.
when
forest.
there
plat-
As
side of Seboo-
shade of a large
tree, I
was
startled to see
seven or
gazed a
MEMOIRS
136
few
saw
steps before I
farther
was a
man
place one
coffin
still
OF
many
as
more, and a
At the
number.
larger
little
latter
His
deposited.
cloth in the
for
some
land
is
back of
a Golgotha.
literally
sepulchre with
shattered coffins,
in
horrid fraternity.
"
notion that
it
off the
The
more
god of
civilized
society.
"
It
This
is
done at twelve or
several days'
voices
The
illness.
ten,
is
of age.
followed
injures
practice
by
their
much.
"
fifteen years
is
This
at fifteen.
is
done by ask-
head man.
are
A feast, and
husband and
"
The
priests are
ploymentj as
of the evil
priests,
spirits,
their
work
numerous
seems
finished.
is
to
They
their principal
be to
make
For
income from
this
em-
likenesses
in cases of sickness.
Yet
the
wife.
devil,
this source
by no means
MUN
AND
They
L X U A N
137
citizens.
"Their language
peculiar
is
themselves.
to
rapidity,
and
No man
"
is
and
Nyas man
kris,
and
in
a dexterous
when
it is
The
the whole.
body be-
up
are nearly a
The arms
Besides this
and sword.
or three times,
horrid aspect
is
No
altogether
M.
Upon
time.
marry again
When
closes
this exercise is
indescribable."
"
drawn,
which
many months
his wife
No man
he must apply
to
good character.
" In case he
the Ametjoer,
12*
designs to do
whose
decision
it,
is
final.
If
he ob-
MEMOIRS
138
jects,
OF
man
consent, the
If
he gives his
woman
twenty
dollars.
"
When
a young person
is
he receives a chastising.
his parents,
Ametjoer, and
if
he
When
one
is
is
lie
When
is
by
ar-
and
exhibit penitence, he
"
detected in a
detected in theft,
if
he
will not
hands and
feet are
bound
together,
and he
cast
is
by
stant death
so infrequently that
almost
the run
lost
oldest inhabitants, in
some
of the Ametjoers
of the laws.
some
in-
decapitation.
villages,
Some
cannot
have
of the
recollect
him
When
asked
he
replied,
knew
not
customs.
to
how
It
far
it
would
would be time
had become a
Christian.
interfere
with their
to decide
when one
Others,
however,
in-
M U N
AND LYMAN.
of a man's becoming a
He would
Mohammedan.
own part
many
'
become
139
be very
to
defiled
swine.
Rajah Bockit
the
ways
his
Bunwa.
and he
resides
still
in
Batu.
"
We
They have
great dread
and reverence
their children
taught
to
rejoice to
if it
Nyas language.
sufficiently far
for
They would
missionary
They
be well received.
are
to receive
have
can be
sufficiently
He
must,
same
render tribute to
to
whom
whom
tribute
is
due,
he must
and custom
never
There
is
itself for
Every
present labour.
is
the time to
facility possible
The
situation
UEMOIRS OF
140
is
as
It is
have no further
England
and
to
Then
elevation of character
from vice
their present
It is like
exemption
a portico
to
mind
their superiority of
New
College.
field
Then
is
their
English
white, already
Nyas.
relation to
its
a house.
If
man
does not
him
200,000 speaking
to
possessing the
this
the
same customs. Or
and
in connection with
at
and two
Pa-
thous-
slave Nyas."
L.
Nyas,
have so
hastily surveyed.
villages,
can
still
But
hasshined
some means
my
its
dense
see
on
its
hundred
whom no
light
and
salvation.
It
can-
many
less
state.
and
is
ten-fold
To
population.
se-
The awe
superior power
god are
likenesses of this
he has power
Rude
141
usually
and
felt
at the idea of a
especially
all-
re-
veals, not
only do not
exist,
But with
their
all
many redeeming
They
im-
qualities.
restraints of the
gospel.
"
it,
I
it,
have read of
but
now
in sight of
it,
I see
thought
it.
The
Surely
this
beautiful
spot
being so degraded as
this
desecration
is
man
permitted
And
for
day
come.
mercy
shall
come.
shall be told,
and
a while,
till
brighter
story of
believed.
redeeming
Here immortal
"The
roll
bell'
over these
shall
hills,
MEMOIRS OF
142
filling
unutterable.
on heathen
home
at
feel
makes me
It
my
in
Though Satan
is
shores.
has usurped
for
it
feel strong.
own
Master's
little
enclosure.
season,
he
it
everlasting disgrace.
"
At night anchored
at
Simambawa.
Found an
Arab
Gunong
nese on
May
"
29.
M.
Holis."
Spent
part of the
He
morning
in con-
The
villages are
almost entirely
He
is
tian
*'
to
the
heavy
government
for the
The Dutch
Nyas
right
for
debtors.
names.
It
is
seUing
down
is
Of sending
slaves.
their
They
are
the bargain
foliage.
a Chris-
trade
is
and
purchase of slaves.
brought
to the
hills,
to
post.
And when
dumb
bit
of
'
And why
fettered,
and
do you
fetter
carried to a foreign
them V
I asked the
'
143
some
board, or in
way
other
do
will
destroy themselves;
now, as
it
many
do, before
men on
who go
wiUingly.'
All
saw on
the
the guard
and
and
of about four
girl,
uncle,
had
for
a number of years
they are
free.
month
per
others.
mean
my
yet, in all
which
make coolies
time they
have never
him,
purchased them
at the expiration of
of them,
cents
In the
died, their
laid before
The government
sold them.
years of
five or six
age.
$1.20
services
inquiries,
to
met
may
Nyas.
to
be responsible
for
And who is
hand of every man
free ?
turning the
and
filling
a nation of two
human
of crimes,
flesh,
and
to
and
stealing
obtain
it,
people, with
trafficking in
wading through
"
of
May
29.
armed
The
chiefs
vassals, bringing
one
slave.
train
saw the
MEMOIRS OF
144
He
his arms.
marched away
to
the
floating
M.
prison."
"
About eleven
three hundred,
the
to
over
other over
came down
people,
fifty
o'clock
audience-house.
the
When
"
him some
carried
long
go
he said
He would
it.
we would
give
us,
Next,
society.
him some
give
always
we bewe might
We
we
however, that
the
we would
Americans
temperance
informed
Americans, he
to his village, if
grog, as
to the
if
He
we were
he learned
would take us up
could go to no
same grounds."
L.
water
we have done
came up
last
seems
Have
to
"
much
exaggerated.
resolved to go on.
it
We
By a
boat
that
The
quarrel
land of which
leave
nothing.
for
us to do
145
in Nyasj
M.
incurring guilt."
''
June
3.
This
morning we anchored
Mene.
surf,
before
the white
with patches of
and
scattered
hills of
underwood, cultivated
trees,
fields,
huts,
an undulating
surface, divided
between the
husbandman, with
and
groves,
a beauty
villages of the
to the
rate climate of
unknown
scene
New
England,
with cocoa-nut
Nyas.
in the
is
the
more tempetall,
graceful-
ly-waving palm."
" June 4.
L.
He
stated
He
which
island,
Nako
says there
is
many
and
people.
is
Mame.)
At
Except that
place, there is
no
"At
roads, as also
Stolis,
&c.
"
He
all of
the
Ladang
or
is
upland kind.
and
grass,
nearly or quite
The
land
is
MEMOIRS OP
146
sharp stick
is
a hole.
to six corns in
the
rice is
Large
rice is
is
planted
quantities of
it
of Sumatra.
"
The
The
Nyas rice.
seed time
May
is
best
ground
poorest
is
is
perhaps
fifty fold,
tively
dren
seems
field
of the year
is
The seed
when the
compara-
idleness.
go into the
sort of kris
only time
rice is the
The rest
hard.
a season of
all
and the
Nyas labour
and the
will
cultivated,
One
forty.
or June,
and labour
chil-
together.
to
husbandry.
"The
molasses, but
as they
The Nyas
make abundance of
may want
Sweet
no sugar.
They
plant
them
the island.
Though it
does
Padang
it
perfect
equal
manner
in
is
coffee,
which
much
not
it is
cultivated.
Pulse
is
147
consump-
The
"
is
manufactured
for
found
is
in all
coast a coarse
with
distinct
sets of branches,
not
It is
tree,
wearing an aspect
"
They
receive in
exchange
<fec.,
(very large,)
make
they
and
(fee.
steel are
made
The
wire
and of the
iron
Their
Of
fruit
Palm wine
uncommon,
yet intemperance
is
common.
is
not
The durian,
the plan-
ful.
is
"
The
forests,
Snakes
all
or rather
by the Ma-
Indeed
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148
domestic fowls
singing birds
seen.
out
the parrot
Hogs seem
marry the
They
With-
Nyas.
the
important
and
The
climate
is
The
peculiar.
to the dead.
feast
cam-
Goats abound
buffalo.
neither
"
reside in their
operations of society.
man to
residence
among
the
day
hills,
sets,
to
it is
to
seventy-seven
above ninety.
both the land and the sea breeze, might not only be
comfortable and delightful to the European, but also
The
very healthy.
five
language of Nyas
six dialects,
hundred
pronounced.
amount
is
to
and
of a
order,
one thou-
feet.
softer
altered or contracted.
fact,
made up
broken
"The
is
Though
to nothing, yet
these dialects, in
from
'
their
The
149
of a different district
own.
are divided into several
islands
districts,
Under these
distinct rajahs.
a single
rajahs
village.
is
War
always indicated by a
One kind
'
certain
When
(fee.
assemble
is
a great
carried about
feast
is
the
The
his subjects,
order of succession
on the shoulders of
standing on a platform.
is
any compensation
cannot learn
Yet they
When
thoroughly discussed in a
all
full
is final.
In
men
all
are
opinions
is
the subject
is
generally a full
All cases of law
Their laws
are,
with
13*
Stealing plantains
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150
goats something
is
rice
and
fornication
death.
it is
doubled again
is
They
are sold
their property
tions share
first
amount
sum
to
to deliver that
slave-dealer that
it.
him
unable
and the
a debt of one
e.
i.
or if
is
doubled,
is
fate.
are put to
neighbour, and
second year,
hundred
both
and
Murder,
If
to pay, in
dred
more
adultery,
In
OF
to
is
comes along.
If they
and
rela-
is
paid.
one of the
fruitful sources
of slavery.
" Bribery
is
very prevalent.
it
If
man
adminis-
which they
at
and
Pulo Batu.
man who
phrenzy.
He performs some surprising feat, by
winch the people suppose that he has intercourse
with the bad
spirit,
a priest.
" June
5.
arrangement,
151
and one
Erenoqeah
thousand men.
the
district there
The
The head rajah
We
shore.
population
chief rajah.
is
men
about two
acclivity
by a winding, narrow
mud and
tall
rajah
is
to the chief
excellency
expecting
house of the
which
it
is
surrounded.
to
We
in.
We
It is
making
entered by a ladder
was not
is
seats.
His
disappointed
native
rajah.
He
way through
The
little
their
mean
through
and winding
hills,
foot-path,
The Datoek
M.
thirst."
communicate.
thers,
The
in front
floor,
and
MEMOIRS OP
152
ed our
rica to
them,
were ready
made a long
toek then
object, the
he' explain-
(fee.
was very
The Da-
which
Ame-
send
(fee,
to hear.
speech, in
desirous such
a great deal
and furthermore
men
said
all
the peo-
with
ple.
but particularly
sides,
L.
room were
his office.
little
bell
he
all
charms,
the apparatus of
article
among
Europeans.
"
The
Of
article in
was
back
at the
the room
was
as black as years of
We made
could
make
cloth,
a return.
it
it.
Said
if
he
no chimney, every
killed
him a small
smoke
present of
and as
for rice,
it
was
contains
fifty souls.
saw
human
at the door a
153
we
to the yard,
skull suspended in a
little
The
when
we
habitation of royalty,
another
less in
"
for
chief,
From
our course
directed
who, though
name,
inferior in
is
to
not
power.
We
descended the
hill,
more
steep
entered
and
diffi-
an hour, we
cult.
this
field
we
for
him
for
that
we were
now we
tions
could see
we would
meet us at
task,
gives
ascend the
his house.
hill,
We
field,
on the opera-
carried
He showed
in the
us his utensils
soil.
Said
he should be happy
to
life
greatest
him
by passing
way up
how he
husbandry.
of
pleased to meet
assured
and beauty
enemy
to the hills,
of the farmer.
but which
We
passed
is
the
many
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154
cultivated spots,
and
potatoes
plantains,
OF
one generation
gully, as if
M.
cession of ages."
"Our
with
bechara,
was attended
this chief,
He
not
amounting
dren,
"
He
his colleague
much
parental
makes
all quiet,
dren,
and
this
children
man's wife
dies,
affairs.
filial
districts,
affection
scarcely
a slave.
to the rajah,
Sometimes, in
or
and
districts
for sale as
complains
tor
we
any
If the
a few
all.
and
of-
unhappy man
dollars
own
sell their
parents.
he makes nothing of
to
but in
at
him
fers
because
descent.
the south-eastern
man
district,
there
chil-
would be no necessity
he and
own
six or seven.
to
redress.
own
chil-
When a
selling
a child
purchase a second
this
ried
wife.
One,
many
has
says,
who
engaged in
it,
fifteen years,
traffic,
Another,
island.
alone.
155
Simambawa
five
hundred
annum.
per
prahu
the
engaged
coast,
to
They
wish
likewise
They
for
two
obtain
"
more as a premium.
The
sionally
French.
since,
no
When
a rajah
Isle of
France.
dies, his
eldest son, or if
he has
man
who
most money,
rajah.
power.
office,
is
made
be introduced into
make a
great feast,
The
priests.
or,
what may be
They have no
holi-
days.
MEMOIRS
156
and
To
OF
all sacrifices,
images
make
by the
in-
in their houses.
images of
their houses
died,
their
all
tion to these
believing that
who have
family
feast,
when
They
charm,
to
or three
when
little
it is
them
at night.
"
They bury
their
districts,
minating in
some
up
to
he would do
him
bring with
for building,
&c.,
life,
(fcc,
and
stores,
for
such as sugar,
particularly.
When
immediately
steel,,
coffee, tea,
Goods should
and coarse
arrived here,
He
presents.
and
his respects
;
the
an American.
in
before, to
his
and goods
to reside
have said
well, as I
trict
ter-
sort of device.
cloths
he should pay
he
is
Dutchman, but
them for a piece of
not a
should ask
wishes
upon
build
to
Labourers he
make
after
house
his
have patience
show
all
When
parts.
he
is
who
will obtain,
a fashion,
he can
if
them an exact
to give
them he
tell
it.
purchase cheap.
will
and
157
and
plan,
ready
raise
to
it,
and
They
take of his
feast,
some
of their followers,
receive
his
presents,
par-
raise
his
will
ever be considered
an
any where
mitted to
Becharas of the
in the
sit
go
and be ad-
in, too,
and
chiefs.
cultivate,
This
and
it
"
He would
fruits, fowls,
saddle
and
do well
to raise his
hogs, sheep
first
vegetabks,
horse, with
bridle.
own
and keep a
He
goods.
"June 7. Early
to the
Malay
chiefs.
;
our
We
at
letters of introduction
to the
stationed a large
14
L.
morning we landed
this
Stolis, to deliver
short distance
"
must, of
Gunong
al-
cannon
and near
it
was
an immense
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158
cauldron,
full
of boiling
We
rice.
went immediate-
which stands
name
is
Malim Kaga.
His age
a large
at the corner of
scarlet
troduction.
He was
to another.
It
beneath a canopy of
to
We
took
supply
half the
We proceeded
little
We
They
had medicines
This
situated
trees.
Malay
here, speaks
and English
or
members
establish
Malay
if
of
we would
council.
and
and
mile,
is
is
had not
and
We
for.
up one-third, or half a
httle distance
of our object,
it
was
in request.
The
all
applicants.
"
of in-
some
letter
"
our
enough
so than
seated in state,
(good).
baiks,'
hall,
We produced
and yellow.
has an
more
He was
ordinarily possess.
His
rajah.
fifty
is
Malays
in the midst
of the village.
old
OF
for
it,
we might
159
for
About
a few
to
as for books
We
mand.
the time
people
fifty
bechara
it
was
was with
we
remained,
till,
making
after
we became
could read.
think
seemed as
It
if
all
at least
tired.
Medhurst's school-book.
free,
But
fifty
Hstened to the
medicines.
It
away
every one
" June 8.
village with
After
my
of the
New
Testament.
dew;
and
was
The
who could
Malay
and a volume
fifty tracts,
obliged not
away by
the
breakfast visited
medicine,
force
from
who had
was aware.
have never
from house
to house, I
was
much
and
and
to-day, as I
went
Nyas
children of the
intelligent
same
they approach
hardly persuade
myself that
me
"
L.
On
our return
we
visited
a Malay school of
MEMOIRS
160
had disposed of
all
schools
This accounts
demand
prahu, I saw a
great
large
number
of
to assist
number
return to
At
;
but,
I sup-
first
on inquiry,
There
fort
the
village.
appeared
consequently the
On my
for books.
all
the large
for
and,
read,
erection of
We
taught by an Arab.
OF
The
Nyas men.
titled to
and as having a
seat,
opinion.
council together,
right to give
rajahs always
and are on an
politics.
They
an
in
The
equality.
sit
religion,
are especially
The
Achi-
"June
9.
Having made
breakfast,
Gunong
interpreter.
Our road
previous arrangements
Stolis,
we
took an early
to procure
a guide and
It
then abruptly
sea,
is
The
a level
so steep as
half the
river.
Malay
At
was
little
161
more than
Thither
it.
We
our progress
ly,
which seemed
land,
waves of the
without
so steep
arrested
wound
our
Direct-
the very
way up
side
its
to let
we
crossed
by a high ridge of
We
sea.
difficulty
was
side,
was
by a
intercepted
was compelled
to rock,
we found
till
mountain.
river,
campong.
sea-shore,
on
its
left,
a Malay
inland.
directly
Here we
that night.
first
learned that
for
it
we had
was
said to
now
less
"
half-past
we
were
many
difficult,
field,
in
At
be-
first
which
Passing
had
this field
recently rained
14*
we began
;
and the
to
ascend the
hills.
MEMOIRS OF
162
wide enough
was
jungle,
for
man
one
as slippery as
to pass
It
ice.
of
legs,
man
forward.
wood,
we
men, cutting
The guide, who had but one eye, took the lead.
The Nyas men and Malay brought up the rear.
For fear we should be separated too far, the men
called to each other from the front and rear, keeping
up a merry echo along the dense forest. I felt
amused at our little guide trotting through the mud,
and
leaf,
He
be able
hills,
so steep
should not
we were compelled to
we plunged
again
then
shaded with
trees
and
in sight of a village,
told,
was the
made
self
our
to
among
little,
and
At length we came
vines.
on a high
hill,
where,
know
not
we were
how we
Brother
it.
upon a mat as
breathed a
lay
into
rajah's house.
way
we
Sometimes
the rajah's.
to arrive at
climbed up
we
said
if
half
observing a
number
of sick people,
duced
a
to
httle child
which had
fallen
down and
and
injured the
U N
AND LYMAN.
O N
chest considerably.
was
It
163
pleasant to administer to
The
rajah
man
is
of forty-five, sedate
common
most
'
white
of
scurf,' or
among
diseases
all
and
He
much
He
evidently wished
much
articles,
them
He seemed
and
offered us
We
told
Nyas
him we wished
and,
if
make
he would come
to
he afterwards
superstitious as
most of
to refuse.
Gunong
Stolis,
He
hinted
his house,
first
his
and
rested our-
we
prepared to
countrymen
not seeing
his
horns,
in
in a
back room.
found
unmounted,
he
slave!
very
a fine
another present.
to
meet
We gave him a
as a present.
pleased with
before
therefore promised to
Gunong Stolis.
few small
more information
for
He
giving an opinion.
fiv^e
In going
at the door.
Among
small swivels,
It
out,
we saw
was intended
MEMOIRS OF
164
to represent
From
of limestone.
might be intended
its
The
of the village.
to represent the
place
it
guardian divinity
was not
than
"
is
common
This rajah
influence of the
chiefs
now
could not
sit
The
is
and
who
be
safely
this district,
are permitted to
deliberate,
"
We
way
with
We
stopped at the
returned by a shorter
we went
fatigue than
Malay
up.
who
as almost to
make
it
to
much
a number of sick
headman's house
A woman
a hospital.
rain.
we were
When
terpreter forded
it,
sampan.
the village
was
present to the
so
Soon
to
drench
and went
When we
in his
overtaken with
us completely.
less
to
returned
we
sent
by him, as
head-man
for
his trouble.
He
re-
We
tired
Gunong S tolls
165
for thirteen
stands on a small
of
river,
which
judging from
place,
It is
At any
location.
its
rate, if its
would be altogether
"
The Malay
viting of
more
any
intelligent
village
is
Arabs abound
read.
here.
flourishes.
people are
elsewhere.
The
all
priests,
one
efforts
thousand,
The Malay
Mohammedans
to convert the
the touchstone of
will eat
it,
it.
'
Yet
"
was
the
It is their
religion.
festival
is
Nyas
most
without
to refrain
from
when
its
use
told
is
11.
hoisted,
About four
and we
that
we
eat pork.
June
coast.
no
yet their
Babe,' (eat
trait in
Nyas have
Makan
Mohammedanism, and
religion, or
delicious fare
population
pray-
the paraphernalia
prophet
false
and
priests,
all
it
European.
intolerable to the
Mohammedans." M.
sailed at
anchor
to
go south before
MEMOIRS
166
he
OF
crosses over to
directly
across,
Reef.
coast,
it is
was an
magnitude
twenty
feel
We
to
men
object of sufficient
Nor
advice of those
we
lives,
We
we
travelled as far as
we
did
contrary to the
made
all
we can gather,
Pulo Nyas is not in a
and, from
that
all
convinced
are fully
On
encouragement we could
lation
not large
is
they retain
but, as
desire.
all
the cus-
enough
to
make a
fair
it is
experiment upon.
If
amply rewarded
language
to writing,
Besides,
and open a
If,
on
or if
among a
it
must
fail
altogether,
it
may
as well
hundred thousand.
We
say
Nyas
demand immediate
attention.
therefore,
fail
of two
without
" So far as
which mission-
liad to contend.
aries
In
Sandwich
the
ed,
it is
present.
The
and a
station
is
establish-
is
may be acquired
language
may
resembles that of
If a mission
Islanders.
167
Padang,
in
And, as
be found in Batu.
may
The Dutch
may
station soldiers
peace
among
Or God
on Nyas.
Then
there will be
will otherwise
open the
We say
lost in
prepared.
stepping-stone by
which
to
Padang
and Batu
is
is
the
the
citadel.
"
The
sembles Batu.
It is
much re-
tainous.
the sea-shore,
mountains.
but dense
"
The
abruptly from
forests are
island
containing a
hills rise
is
M.
unknown."
number
of villages.
districts,
Over each
vil-
MEMOIRS
168
lage
is
chief, or
chief,
and over
two head
OF
whole
tlie
a head
district is
The head
chiefs in colleague.
no unUm-
And
<fec.
in
some
and northern
all justice
dialect,
The
which
is
different
court, or
high
great
is
In the mid-
for itself*
districts all
consummated by a
in the district in
it
reside in the
and though
and northern
is
more
scattered
residing
hills,
connected houses.
and circular.
the north.
It is principally in slaves
they exchange
The
known by
the
steel,
which
and
cloths.
to
be
man
es.
ships.
man's hand
number of
than
rice,
to trade
and
The
Those
and white
either.
is
own manufacture
The handle
outer edge.
is
straight, at others
wood
the head
is
ed rattan, lead,
steel, or brass,
its
of a dark-coloured, hard
169
plaits of braid-
an inch
in width
and sometimes
tuft of hair,
The
knives
The
complicated
for
common
abroad.
use.
the
sir.aller is
for all
tools,
is
larger
is
purposes of war.
generally plain
It is
The
and
knife,
and made
or
hard
for
full dress
home
large
ball
is
formed by
below the
hilt,
coloured cloths,
it
is
to
little
give rain,
(fcc, besides
hand
bound by narrow
on the
out-
strips of different
way
in
the night,
armour
consists of
light, ob-
to the hips,
made
15
MEMOIRS OF
170
ture,
nearly as
much
thick
resistance as
five, or six
offering
or
same purpose.
and hard,
a coat of mail
The
native jacket
dollar,
and
for
tobacco
little
They
will
go
consist
in
it
it
the
air,
tremendous onset
it
be
movements,
left
difficult for
to hit
one unaccustomed
them with a
spear, but
"
One
The
village there,
noqeah
or Larago,
one thousand
five
(Gunong
Stolis,)
contains two
district of
Ere-
and another of
The
all
we
have seen and heard, should say the smallest calculation for children
would be equal
to both,
and
should
it
men
we
and women.
make
171
equality,
and
six
thousand in another.
They do
"
but like most other Malays, they have only the form
even of
Mohammedan
godhness.
Their
and Hadjies
the
first
saw
lays.
three.
reside here,
who
of course
but they
their
own
in-
terest is concerned.
"
ing
it
would be
of ascertain-
safe to put
it
at
The
missionaries on
from government,
Nyas
(fcc, will
Englishman,
or
American.
is
concerned.
affords protection to
Still,
friend,
every
the favour of
so far as residence,
MEMOIRS OF
172
by application
but
it is
and
its
among whom
under-officers,
affec-
the missionary
resides.
them no
We saw no instruments
taste.
signs of a musical
of native manufac-
is
Their
a rude kind
of bawling.
*'
French
tained
Papists, about
Nyas
convert.
two years
They
One
since.
of the servants
arrived at
They
and learned a
servants at Pinang,
of the language.
were by two
this people,
Padang
ob-
little
became a
spent a short
They
w^ere,
clownish enthusiasts.
hundred Spanish
Were miserably
old clothes
One
of
but one
all
per
annum, and
they
them embarked
scarcely contained
and
dollars,
from the
we
monkish,
fitted out.
Catholic officers
learn,
from
at
Padang, in a
he had put in
room
his
for himself.
httle
open
own baggage,
He
arrived at
173
hill,
among
the people,
and
visited
child of that
His servant,
died.
He
chief.
and obtained a
also,
fever,
and
This
man was
hardly
came,
to
But the
stations of the Dutch.
was already upon him, and he only landed at
Gunong Stohs, to hnger out eight or ten days, and
the upper
visit
fever
go
"
The
They have
determination of so doing.
matter
and
idols, for
the
their pictures
It
Pope
to substitute
Nyas
hand
may
of the
Lord
an unconquer-
in all this ?
How
15*
see the
American
MEMOIRS OF
174
Christians to lead
can
them
to the fountain of
life,
who
tell ?
"In
the
Catholic
The
Padang.
three to
latter,
on arriving
at their
Nyas language,
among the Catholic
and
officiate,
soldiers
in the
found there.
their salary,
mean
One
time,
took
but, after
vessel that
superiors
ances
to
same
their allow-
The
Macao.
who
Proe-
in person, to
Padang
matra
to
all
we may
Rome,
for
two
for
which he
years.
June
12.
From
Still in
L.
interest' that I
look forward
Nyas.
morning.
and dwelJ on a
men
filled
175
fied.
hills, telling to
its
"
We
find, to
it
God
Stohs,
saints singing
is
work
yet to
idolators.
in his
Gunong
hear
sinners
now benighted
own time.
hasten
rejoicing.
The Lord
called, to
and power
purity
in
other, as
way from
direct
to Natal,
The
we
passage,
shall
nearly a week.
be
We
can
"
June
16.
Landed
at
Pulo Ely
wood
to procure
and water.
in
more than
The
wind was
would
go.
fair,
'
but in spite of
How
can we
them
off.
On
landing,
all
went on shore
was
plainest
By
buildings,
the shore.
manner, that
&c.,
to
hurry
V was
without them
sail
remonstrance, they
all
civilized
Further back
furniture, the
frames
indicating, in
man had
the
been there.
Eng-
MEMOIRS OF,
176
Malay, and
It
was a
there
but, about
three
all his
beautifully-retired spot
a narrow
two hundred
high.
feet
Its
off.
flat incliff,
summit was
trees,
to
The
and the
bustle of business
The whole
of death reigns.
It is
one of nature's
fortifications,
is
the silence
a high
bluff.
up as a
"
island
voice of mirth
now
June
17.
Pang-chun
To-day,
island.
at three o'clock,
It is
landed on
fort
Called on
stand.
a room
"
in his house,
us very cordially.
and a
At evening went up
Gave us
It
main entrance
commanding and
beautiful.
pose the
live
situation
garrison.
on the
"June
Its
Dutch
officer
is
and
fifty soldiers
island.
18.
Have
done
little
com-
Our
friend Bonnet,
who has
for
our
travelled in
He
ry information.
lies,
To-day
we
officers
accompanied
us.
We
the village.
The
rajah
quite a
suming
The
began
Resident, the
came out
is
meet
to
to prepossess
make some
He had
we
Bur-
We
where
He
us.
to
war
of the vessel of
spot
necessa-
ton.
all
&c.
"June 21.
is
177
his
It
was
is
saw the
now taken
palm
and three
it is
now
When
trees.
He
children.
residing here he
We could find
no
had a wife
to
Bengal.
though
it
June 22.
We have resolved
country at Tappanooly,
i.
e.
to enter the
Batta
To-morrow afternoon we
engaged our
"
interpreter,
an
We
set out.
opas,
and
of a Batta village
have
eight coolies.
is
to
be our
MEMOIRS OP
178
interpreter.
at every point.
faith in
God
Our
will not
greatest danger
is,
be strong enough.
that our
"
Except
it,"
M,
MUNSON AND
LYMA.N.
CHAPTER
The
179
VII.
in attempt-
From
scribed above,
it
Lyman
endured
journal.
The
passed before
noticed in their
which they
reaching
resulted
Tappanooly,
in
and firm
'
supply of the
and want
spirit
of Christ
;"
danger, fatigue,
longed
to close their
They
harvest."
But agreeably
found the
field
to their
commission, they
among them
also
MEMOIRS
180
With
June
this
OF
17, 1834.
to their friends
and
far,
ful strain,
Lord."
and
in a calm, cheer-
many
The
we
life."
the infor-
all
The
officer,
at
Tap-
To my
communicating
cessity of
to
ancholy account
"
On the
the proro
'
Soctan, from
their intention to
my
Malim
who
informed
me
that
of
command
for
and
bag-
gage, which were accordingly provided by me, consisting of fourteen persons, viz
coeta, the
head of Kalangan
district,
together with
181
which we added
their
own two
servants
coolies,
but not
their purpose,
On
but in vain.
the
23d
was
built,
by way of Tappanooly
to
of
fort
Tobah, and on
me
named
the above
coolies,
me
and
collectively, related
"That
first
from Tappanooly,
the third at
house of radjah
which
Amani
chiefs they
respect,
them
Pageran
by
hospitality
all
and
that at that
Tobah
farther
there existed
16
any
and
that they
MEMOIRS OF
182
and would
could not,
not,
be responsible
To which
gave answer
Messrs.
tbe con-
for
sequences.
visit
they
came not
bah.
28th,
this resolution
their
journey to To-
till
the
at noon,
who
treated
them
return,
to
if
and not
en-
to prosecute their
"
ing
That the above named gentlemen, notwithstandall these warnings, and the urgent request of
their
own
followers, to return,
and the
being
tell
their
came
to visit
them
as friends
Tobah,
and not
when suddenly
since they
as
their
enemies.
march,
till
lay
down
their arms,
and
Lyman and
were enabled,
the baggage, to
to
their servants.
jump
183
In the mean-
having forsaken
after
by flight,
save themselves.
"
That
they,
on
their
retreat
Lyman and
hitherwards, had
same
by
this declaration,
be pleased
to
much
to
to
any
one's
warning or
good counsel.
"
The
was found
at
Padang, according
The
by
sis
me
much
to
of
it
as
Mr. Boyle,
they
following
is
who accompanied
He is
Messrs. Munson and Lyman from Batavia.
described as an honest, simple-hearted man, who
and appears
to
family,
He
difficult,
consisting of
forests
so
MEMOIRS
184
Steep in
many
places, that
and
to
OP
tied
The
were compelled
to as-
to tie their
The
master
these
to
five
No
on
foot,
The
village,
vil-
end of
any thing
like
to
advance about
When
they arrived
who showed no
women and
examined
to
at the
houses or
and only
individuals in
their persons
and
children,
presence of
to the travellers,
dresses with
ea-
On
the
fell
it
told
them
that
and
much
in with
would be
make
from Tobah,
letter
inquiries,
to
MUNSON AND LYMAN.
The
ceived.
185
came with
On
such a measure.
for
being
questioned
but
Malays residing
there,
of the
Lyman
to
be allowed
to
that Mr.
Lyman
replied,
he must
He
The
cordingly.
came
to,
go,
and
that they
following villages
which they
very rapid
across
on
river,
which they
rattan, tied
effected
from one
the brethren
by swinging
he thinks must
Lyman
propose
He
day of
their
return, nor
five
any
other
to
The
"About
last
onset Si
Jan
describes as follows
they came suddenly upon a log fort, which was occupied by a number of men, armed with muskets,
spears, &/C. To this fort they had approached within
16*
MEMOIRS OF
186
go
interpreter offered
followed the
two
When
him
After
coolies
brethren, their
behind.
fort
first
On
it.
and the
servants,
police
runner
fort.
burthen and
interpreter also
rear.
fled,
noise,
threw down
became
the
Immediately the
invisible.
They came
was enabled
to
push by
Lyman
them
to
pistols,
received
for the
should be
left
but Mr.
Lyman
rabble,
and handed
to the
Lyman
Mr.
defenceless.
to
time, their
fire,
same
his
and come
deUvered up his
little,
with
Lyman
weapons with
their
an
so near
it
own
use.
Si
Jan gave
it
to
him
MUNSON AND LYMAN.
accordingly,
to the Battas.
preter
Si Jan ran a
187
little
way
to call
when
over
Lyman,
Mr.
it
Lyman
fall,
Jan
calling out
Jan
shout
Another shout
who had on
then
he attempted
On
Si
to escape,
and
cook,
and
fall,
their cleavers,
their lives,
The
had
his
the body,
followed.
one blow of
made on
Mr. Munson,
fell.
was
fort.
police
runner
arm
arm
now
cut
off,
into
his
ran
for
remained
ready
was
Si Jan
and
rejoicing
fired
off
all
muskets,
much
al-
While
shouting
quiet."
In a
letter to
Auxihary
to
support
"By
MEMOIRS
188
have
freely
the
offered
ney,
yea he
many
so
OF
and urges
mainly anxious
is
it
by
excite the
considerations, as strongly to
suspicion that he
jour-
exonerate
to
on such a dangerous
on
my mind
dissuasives
trary,
free
is,
The
expedition.
impression
which he gives
out,
exceedingly
written
difficult.
who
Chinese teacher,
and by the
speaks
I
report of the
much more
have been a
letter
to his de-
strongly
to insert
myself on
traveller
exceedingly
to act
vourable,
when
it
know how
Sometimes
know^ that
to
to
me
as cer-
a single warning
awaited me.
when
many
on them frequently
to act
on
it
their
was incumbent
own judgment,
to
com-
MUNSON AND LYMAN.
189
own
ing to their
and
impressions.
common
affairs of
ing tour.
is
bad pohcy
much more
life,
pusillanimous
so
in the
on an explor-
and we
to
vere,
encourage us
to perse-
fact of
who
one of those
am
they must
of humanity, as well as
ills
This, however,
man is
is
certain
a good
call
them up
was sudden
Christ,
immortal
to
wear
glory
till
which was
To
it.
they
his
departed,
far better.
inspired
Thus
assures us that he
of our brethren
Jesus,'
gion,
penman
&c.
may
it
With regard
and the
be said,
to
'
fell
asleep.
they sleep in
the interests of
reli-
dreadful death,
of the Christian
but
may mourn
when
be-
MEMOIRS OF
190
'We
exclaimed,
hoped that
is
and
when
yet,
it
and
Israel,
were
did
when were
and
who
the
known
in
what
gaged
and
Tappanody
that, "
in disturbances with
agitated with
a neighbouring
anger and
fear,
in the
which
village,
is
It
must be regarded,
to
country.
accidental,
In 1824, Messrs.
Ward and
Burton pass-
When
coast,
it
all
to
do the Batta
was
perpetrated,
The unhappy
and
village
to require
blood
for
blood.
In an
191
upon
it
set
the houses on
fire,
killed as
many
of
gardens and
some
persed,
so that their
fields,
fields.
in
one
direction,
community was
thick jungle or
swamp
name
is
No
of Sacca
Lyman
this
and Christian
missionaries.
their village
When
murdered
" I
Henry
felt
same
and the
friends of the
the
some of
stood,
up,
no more heard."
such retahation as
relatives
In their
dissolved.
now growing
is
dis-
my
cause.
am
so far
from
as a missionary to
O,
how much do
who murdered my
son,
So
also
at " the
It
aries
beginning
Batta country.
fell.
The
to enter the
gation aside.
It
MEMOIRS OF
192
of Neas,
it is
unsafe travel-
Would they
same
because
reason,
hazard of life
at the
There
is
others at
no
it
Tappanooly attempted
to
dissuade
them
men.
and
to other
dangers
difficulties.
Some one
at
among them,
should go
formed of
man who
it
what
credit
heard
was due
it
no one should
on the journey.
themselves to
best to proceed.
affirm,
should
impossible to determine
the
to
judged
It is
It rested
decide.
They
rashly
To some
it
missionaries
to
furnished
"
tour.
this point
it
must
193
outfitj
in
it
Sumatra,
who
assured them
to
the
that
districts
between the
villages.
selves
with muskets.
It is certain
tention of using
them
protect
why they
that they
them-
travelled
had no
in-
men.
To
to procure food in
once
violence, instead of
surrendered their
arms.
But
their
work was
endowments, nor
finished.
appointed
Christ
lives
and
blow.
their fellow-men,
''
to
field."
love,
and
forgive
It
them
was
often
17
MEMOIRS OF
194
Munson was
ciates.
them
to labour as asso-
and
placid, deliberate,
firm.
and dangers
Lyman
and kindled
success,
achieved
to
to its
in view of the
neither was
pertinacious
was
good
to
be
both dehghted
In their views of
difficul-
entire
agreement
both
and Dwight.
They
theological speculations
Evarts, Cornelius,
in
New
England, w^hich
grief
and
to labour
among
dogmas
Against commissioning
alarm.
referred
to,
they
know
Should
commenced by
Mills, Hall,
it
and
as ominous of
Beheving,
the prosperity
of
spiritual
leligion in the
tlie
same
influence
where the
their education,
when their
195
Munson and Lyman daily met for fraternal interand common suppUcation.
Like tlie two
course
of a separate interest."
their oc-
They were
the same."
and
lives,
The
friends
erected,
cenotaph
to the
inscription, "
words of
memory
of Mr.
day on which he
fell
no reason
to
And he
me
bulation,
These
and according
to
has
me
unto
the
to the very
"
Lyman, with
all
it
is
done."
things."
"
" He
that
And he
said
their robes
Lamb."
the
Lamb
tri-
and made
"
These are
whithersoever he
goeth."
Of
all
the gospel
At the time
who
MEMOIRS
196
ger of yielding to
that confidence
who
human
which
crowned our
is
all."
OF
instruments a portion of
due exclusively
to
Him
efforts to
on
ly
if
and the
number of men
raised,
Know-
sent forth.
from man."
The race
"
"
is
to
his
people,
admonish them
Him.
"Cease ye
The Lord
alone shall be
Such events
fill
as that
the heart of
any
now under
dings.
The
Jesus.
God
He
that
is
and
right early."
the church,
still let
her
show
onward "
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