LABUAN ISLAND

[s. 404] : A small island off the N. W. coast of Borneo and about 6 miles distant. It belongs to the British North Borneo Company, well-wooded and has extensive coal mines, and produces sago flour in large quantities. It has an area of 30 square miles and a population is flat, Station of the SPG (1889), with (1903) mi ionary, 4 native workers, 14 outstations, 2 places of worship, 1 day school and 114 profe ed Christians, of whom 46 are communicants. of 6,000. 1 LA CAROLINA: A village in the S. part of the State of Maranhao, Brazil, S. America, near the To can tins River. Station of the South American Evangelical Mi ion, with 2 mi ionaries, one with his wife. 404