BUNYON, Charles John. Memoirs of Francis Thomas McDougall Sometime Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak and of Harriette his Wife. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1889.
8vo. Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. [viii], 368, 24 (publisher's catalogue); two photogravure portraits with tissue guards, a fine copy with large portion still unopened.
Rare first edition. A very interesting, edited first-hand account of Sarawak, Borneo and Labuan in he mid C19th. Francis Thomas McDougall (1817 - 1886) was the first Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak from 1849 to 1868. McDougall arrived in Sarawak in June 1848 and established a Medical mission there and a 'Home School,' in which children were trained from infancy in the principles of Christianity. In 1853, he returned to Britain in order to manage the transfer of the mission from the Borneo Mission Society, whose funds came to an end, to the Society for Propagating the Gospel. In 1854, he returned to Sarawak and the work of the mission grew.
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