Arrival of the Roman Catholic Mission in Labuan--Signor Cuarteron its head--Curious reports--His real history--Finding the Treasure--Turns Priest--Ostensible object of the Mission--Not attempted--Ease with which Captives could escape--No Inclination to do so--Turned Mahomedans--Return of Signor Cuarteron--Courtesy of the Brunei Government--Intentions of the Italian Priest--Model Village--The Italian Priests--The Churches--Old Battery--Regret at the withdrawal of the Roman Catholic Mission--Protestant Mission at Sarawak--Present Condition--Comparative Failure--Partial Success at Lingga and Lundu--Mr. Chalmers and the Land Dayaks--Causes of his Influence--Mistake in establishing the Mission at Kuching--The Reasons--Objectionable Position for Schools--Proper Position for the Mission--Suitable spots--Waste of Funds in Boats and Plantations--Deplorable Secession of Missionaries--Reasons to account for it--Present Management faulty--Mr. Gomez in Lundu--Christian Dayaks warn the Government--Missionaries always welcome in Sarawak--Important political effect--The Church should be among the Dayaks--Suitable Men for Missionaries--What the Head of a Mission should be--What he too often is, and should not be--Five Recommendations to increase Efficiency--Unoccupied Room for a great Increase of the Number of Missionaries--Method of distributing them--Personal Character--Dayaks an interesting Race--A Tribe half Mahomedans half Pagans--Use of eating Pork--Districts unoccupied--Position of the Missionary in Sarawak--The Bornean Mission an important one. I will first notice the Roman Catholic, as it has proved of the least importance; and perhaps I shall best explain its complete failure by giving an account of its chief. In the spring of the year 1857, a Roman Catholic mission arrived at our colony of Labuan. Its principal, Signor Cuarteron, a Spaniard, soon became an object of interest, from the various reports that were spread respecting his previous life, and from its becoming generally known that he was the possessor of great wealth acquired by extraordinary means. Strange stories were soon afloat, which would have done more credit to his adventurous spirit than to his honesty: it was asserted--and with truth--that the Manilla government had once set a price upon his head; and absurd whispers were abroad that he had been concerned in the slave-trade, and in buccaneering pursuits.