DURANGO

[s. 235] : Capital of the State of Durango, Mexico; situated 195 miles N. W. of Zacatecas and near a remarkable hill of magnetic iron ore. Altitude, 6,320 feet. It was founded in 1551. Population (1889), 24,800. Station of the MES (1884), with 1 mi ionary and his wife, 2 mi ionary women, 1 native worker, 1 preaching place and 3 Sunday schools. Station also of the SBC, with (1902) 1 mi ionary and his wife, 3 native workers, 1 common school and 36 profe ing Christians DURBAN: Capital of Natal, South Africa, at the head of its harbor on Port Natal Bay, 45 miles east southeast of Pie term a ritz burg. It contains several public buildings of importance, and has a large trade. Population, 17,900. Mi ion station of the (1892), with (1901) 1 mi ionary and his wife, 34 native workers, men and women; 40 preaching places. Also station of the SPG (1872) among the 72,000 Indian coolies with (1902) 1 mi ionary and his wife, 5 native workers, ABCFM bes, Moluccas, Timor Archipelago, Bali, Lombok, and New Guinea to 141 degrees east latitude, with a total area of 736,400 square miles and a population (1900) of about 36,000,000. The total number of Dutch or Dutch connections is 60,277, and the whole number of Europe ans in Of the remaining populathe islands is 75,297. tion 460,000 are Chinese, 24,000 Arabs, and 32,000,000 natives. The pioneer mi ionaries to Dutch Borneo were from the American Board, who labored on the west coast from 1839 to 1849; but at present the Rhenish Society only is doing mi ionary work here, altho the British and Foreign Bible Society has done some temporary work. On five of the islands, lying between New Guinea on the east and Sumatra and Borneo on the west, we find the largest remnants of the earlier Dutch government evangelization; and here a number of misThe sionary societies are doing succe ful work. work in Sumatra was begun in 1820 by a Baptist mi ionary; and now representatives of five German and Dutch mi ionary societies are reap Miracles of grace have taken ing a rich harvest. place in Java and Celebes as the result of the faithful labors of mi ionaries of six Dutch societies, the Neukirchener Mi ion and the agent of Nearly the British and Foreign Bible Society. 40,000 Mohammedans have accepted the Chris In the whole Dutch East Indies, tian religion. reports for 1897 show 502 government vernacular schools and 578 private vernacular schools, which The give instruction to about 118,000 pupils. whole number of Christians (native) reported in There were 133 Protest he census was 309,258. tant and Roman Catholic mi ionaries in the islands in 1900. Wallace (A. R.), The Malay Archipelago, London, 1869; Scidmore (Eliza), Java, the Garden of the East, New York, 1897; chT iher {K.), Be such auf Sumatra, 1877; and the same, Zweiter Be such auf Sumatra, Barmen, 1882; Wameck (G.), Nacht und Margen auf Sumatra, Barmen, 1872 and 1873; Bleeker (P.), Reis door de Min a has a a und den Molukshen Archipel, Batavia, 1856; Warneck (G.), History of Protestant Mi ions, translated by Dr. Robson from the 7th German edition. New York, 1901. DUTCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. erlands Mi ionary Societies. See Nethmen and women; 1 orphanage, 1 dispensary and DUTCH (SOUTH AFRICA) REFORMED MINISTERS’ MISSION UNION. See South Africa Dutch Repohmed Church Mi ion. 100 communicants. Also station of the National Baptist Convention (1900), with 2 mi ionaries, 1 mi ionary woman, 1 preaching place, 1 school, and 210 profe ing Christians. Also station of the South African General Mi ion (1895), with under Bareilly. 235