The people of Borneo are of many races and languages. The MALAYS have been in the island for many centuries; they are Mohammedans, and the one stipulation made by the Sultan when Sir James Brooke became rajah was that he should not interfere with the customs or religion of the Malay people. Though not particularly hostile to Christianity, they are but little affected by it.
The Church sent its first missionary to Borneo in 1847, at the request of Sir James Brooke. The Rev. Francis McDougall, who was chosen for this pioneer work, was an ideal man for the task, and was supported in his undertaking by an ideal wife. McDougall, who was a doctor as well as a priest, quickly won the people's confidence [5/6] by his medical skill, and in a few years a school, a church, and a mission house were built, the money being provided by a committee in England. Up to 1851, McDougall was working single-handed, taking services in English, Chinese and Malay, doing medical work, teaching both Dayak and Chinese children, visiting among the Dayaks, and planning to extend the mission work to the jungle. From that time a succession of helpers came to work in the diocese, and, home funds having failed, the S.P.G. agreed to adopt Borneo as one of its spheres of work.
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