1841 (22 May) Missionary entire letter written aboard the "Barque Charlotte Java Sea" en route for Sourabaya (Java), the contents reveal the writer's ultimate intended destination to be Borneo "At last we are on our way to Borneo...there (Sourabaya, Java) we expect to find vessels belonging to Arab traders, going either to Sambas or Pontianak (Borneo) in one of which we hope to get passage to our future home", addressed to New York and showing faint red "BOSTON" c.d.s. and matching straight-line "SHIP"

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1841 (22 May) Missionary entire letter written aboard the "Barque Charlotte Java Sea" en route for Sourabaya (Java), the contents reveal the writer's ultimate intended destination to be Borneo "At last we are on our way to Borneo...there (Sourabaya, Java) we expect to find vessels belonging to Arab traders, going either to Sambas or Pontianak (Borneo) in one of which we hope to get passage to our future home", addressed to New York and showing faint red "BOSTON" c.d.s. and matching straight-line "SHIP"

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