1914-07-09 — Page 9

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SECOND EXTRA

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1914.

CHINESE IN SARAWAK.

The "Pilgrim Fathers of Borneo.".

prenchere among them who were CHARGE OF earnest, intelligent men."

MANSLAUGHTER.

A Chinese witness gave

The places where the colony Bettled were cleared, but the jungle etcod up like a wall on all American history dealing with sidos. There were active enemies: evidence of witnessing a fight on the Pilgrim Fathers once inspir "Rats and birds ate their rice, May 24, but neither of the parties ed a Chinese Christian convert to pige ate their potatoes, deer aid was in court. He could recognise emulation. He thought it would their pepper vines, and floods the defendant na one of them, be a splendid thing to take poor came. They were sick and An old man, was armed with a Christions from China to form a discouraged and terribly home- piece of a bed board, but at first new commonwealth in Borneo, sick, so that at the end of old man struck the defendant the defendant had nothing. The where liberty to worship God in three years they had not had a with the bed board. The defond- the manner they desired would decent crop.

be granted them as it was the "During these three years the ant ran into the kitchen and Pilgrims who came to the New proprietor fed the colony, and all brought out a knife and the two World, Economically these poor sorts of trouble arose. A clerk fought again. The chopper pro- Christians were in a hopeless absconded with several thousand duced was the "knife" need. atate. A man could earn tea cente dollars, and things went from bad During the fight the old a day and his wife one. "A debt to worse. Money began to run man was cat on the thigh. of ton dollars ran through two or short. Then the proprietor tried Sergt. Pitt, recalled," said that three generations," says James to raise funds by sending agents into the police station, he was when the defendant was brought M. Hoover in The Christian out among the people to levy on suffering from a small scalp Advocate (New York), "and the produce, or anything they had whole family was in practical that could be terred into money,

wound on the back of the head." slavery to the man to whom the with the result that everybody his version of the affair, Eversince The defendant in the box gave money was owing." The Boxer got so diecouraged and deeperate the Cotton Mills bad been start- troubles were just over, and the that they sat down and would ed-ten years ago-he had been Church was despised and not work. Of course there were

men

where to come.

Taking up the story from this

harassed, when Mr. Uong many who would not work as long employed there and in a machin conceived his plan of colonizing as they were being fed. Didery accident bad lost his arm. Borneo, where conditions were ever any colony succeed under a Living in the coolio quarters be much the same as those of the proprietor? To help collect his occupied a room which controlled American virgin country. Mr. revenue the proprietor called on the drinking water valve. The Uang went to Borneo and met Sir the Government, so the whole door of the room he kept locked. Charles Brooke, "tho rajah of situation got before the rajah,

Mr. Brutton then informed his Sarawak, owner and ruler of who visited the colony at this Worship that the defendant found, 58,000 square miles of territory. time and saw the situation. on the date in question, that the This man was anxious for workers There was only one way out and

look had been so tampered withthat for his rice fields and he promis- that was to give cack man the he was unable to open the door. ed Mr. Uong to give his colony fair chance eitbor to support and had apparently attempted to The deceased was standing near all the land they could cultivate himself or starve, and there was and a loan of $20,000. The only one way to do this, which Defendant asked the deceased if force the door, and failed. went first with their was to remove the proprietor. he had been into the room and organizer; the women and child. This the rajah did. Then he ren were to follow later. But it came to the missionary and said: received a reply in the affirmative. was fully six years before all the I wish you would tell the people if I lose anything I shall know Defendant replied “All right, women joined their husbands, for me that they are now on their We read :

own resources each man must The proprietor was a scholar, work out his own way. will and know little about farming, collect no taxes and help all I point, the defendant said the and many of the colonists were can, but I will not give one cant deceased was angry as he anid" not farmers. They saw the of money, He also said: 'I want he had been called a thief, and, glorious end, but they under- you to represent the people to the the head with it. He ran into the seizing a bed board, hit him on estimated the hardships necessary Government, and do what you can kitchen, and the deceased rushed to attain it.. In the prospectus to help. for I am anxious to 890 at him. Picking up a chopper the drawn up at the time it was the colony succeed." said that the colony would be The superintendent of

defendant held it out against feeding itself on its own crops in Singapore district took a lesson kiok. He did not know that he the the deceased, who gave him a xine months, but as it worked from history. Instead of running had cut decend, for he walked out it was more than three years the colony for the benefit of the away. Defendant went downstairs before every family could sapport church, he advised: "Let us and reported the matter to his give our time to encouraging master, Mr. Harrop. No persons The banks of the Rejang and helping the people, and when were present so far as he 88W, River were selected as the place they are prosperous they will when the fight took place. of settlement. The country was support their own church." The very sparsely inhabited by Dyaks narrative continnes: and Molays, and there was a little land cleared of the awful jungle, so that they would ba little disturbed, and one foothold, at least, could És gained without delay.

itself.

telling who would win the wild when it was standing. If the "For five years there was no down it is even a worse mess than at one time. Then when it is

time anything was planted till it burned in two or three months, pigs or the Ohigamen. From the weather is dry the mass may be was garnered in some one had to If the burn is a failure on account

a hoe be sent home without strik-

***The proprietor got his people stay on the place at night to blow of wind or rain, the only thing to a hora, pound on a tin can, or do is to give up that patch and try together and

took them to shout the whole night through to another. Hongkong, where a abip had been keep the wild piga off.

If the burn is: obariered to take them directly came in droves and destroyed in ed

They good, everything is consum- to the Rejang. How fearful and a few minutes many days' work stamps and roots. Then the bat the trunks and timid they were! People full When Dr. West got back to Sing-trunks must be worked up and of ages of superstition, from a country crowded, tresless, and did deadly work in the ranks of dug out and burned. Under the spore be sent as a for guns that burned, and the stamps and roots cultivated to the last foot, going the wild pige, and as we could leaves and mold and ground ie o to a country covered with a afford it we got more, until now perfect mass of wood, so that jungle like a great blanket laid the colonists sometimes long for hardly once in a whole day may down over it, and filled with the savoury taste of wild pork. hoad-hunters and everything that lives in silencǝ and gloom.

"A cengua takon at the end of ing wood; this must all be pulled "Just then Bishop Warne five years showed that there were out, piled up, and burned. "Often appeared on the scene, and clouds fewer than five hundred people a whole tree-trank is found thus litted wonderfully. On the way left. They had died of diseases buried. When it is all dag up over services were held which new and old, they drowned in the ground is soid, and the rain. helped mach, and a few who had the rivere, got lost in the and the sun must sweeten it idola with thend threw them into jungles, disappeared mysterious before things will grow properly, the depths of the China Sea. ly and many surely died of Then how things do grow !

"This was the first of three homesickness. Oh how they "The next trouble was bound- parties. They had temporary longed for China! They suffered ary lines. At first each follow houses bailt for them. Bishop everything any colony in America dug where he pleased and msay Warne stayed about a week and wear through, except frostbite dug side by side is small strips greatly encouraged them. The and massacre.Borneo saddles for protection from wild piga. rajah was pleased by his visit, and the equator, and the climate is Soon the inside fellows wanted often yet inquiros alter him. nine months hot and three to extend, To do so, they had to “The other two parties were monthe hotter. The strong hand take an outside piece, so they not so fortunate. They had neither of Rajah Brooke kept the wild overlapped and dovetailed, until Bishop to go with them nor houses men off; only two colonista lost nobody knew where one left o built for them. Most of them their beads, and they went one or the other began. About this had little but a teapot, a hoo, and hundred miles into the jungle time Bishop Oldham came along, a mat. The teapot was a comfort, looking for oil-nute

and, being a surveyor, the the boo a necessity, and the mat a 'Clearing the jungle is a heart tangle greatly vexed his right- laxury on fine nights they slept breaking job. It is so thick and angled eye. He went to the rajah on it, and on rainy nights they interwoven that when a single and proposed that the Govera sat up and hold it over themselves, tres is cut off it will not fall. The mont survey the land, and then This move brought the church only way to get it down is to lavy a small tax to cover expenses, people out of the bounds of the notch all the trees in a goodsized This the rajah readily agreed to. Foochow Conference into the piece any fifty acroinen out be put a tax of twenty-five cents Malaysia Conferends. Bishop off several big trees at one end, a year on each sore surveyed, and Warne gave them a start, and and throw them into the notched gave a grant for this land for 099 there were a number of loosi trees, thus taking the whole lot years,