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 CAREY AND SRIRAMPUR MISSION 97 zeal of Francis Xavier or of the Moravian brotherhood in the East, we find, for the greater part of the 18th century (1707 to 1798), the Coast-Mission (as it was called) carrying on its missionary work in South India with Tranquebar as its centre. At one time it was a very powerful movement carried on by the Lutherans whom, from Zeingenbalg to Schwartz, Dr. Francke had trained at Halle and Frederick IV of Denmark had send forth to its India Company’s settlement in the South: but when Carey landed, the Coast Mission, partly on account of the wars between the English and the French, was almost in a state of inanition. To Bengal there was, we have seen, Roman Catholic Mission but as yet no Protestant Mission from England. The only well-known missionary who came to Bengal before Carey, was Kier- oon ঠা nandar the Swede,! the “ Mammon” Kiernander, 1758 (a. Of Hicky’s Gazette, whom Clive in 00150 1758 had brought to Caleutta where James Long’s Handbook to Bengal Missions will also be found useful, with reference to the general educational activity of the missionaries. Duff’s India and Indian Missions and his articles in the earlier volumes of the Calcutta Review may also be consulted. On the Missions in the South, literature in vast. One may, however, consult with advantage, Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses écrites de Missions Htrangéres, 26 vols. 1780-83, vols. x-xv specially refer to India; Lacroze, Histoire du Christianisme des Indes, 2 vols. 1758; Bertrand, La Mission du Maduré 4 vols. 1847; Coleridge, Life and Letters of St. Francis Xavier. Fora faller bibliography on this subject, see A. C. Burnell, A Tentative List of Books and Mss. relating to the History of the Portuguese in India, Mangalore, 1880, ? See Cal. Rev, 1847. vol. viii, pp. 124-184. Also Marshman, History of Serampore Mission, vol. i, p. 20, et seq. Carey calls Kiernander a German (E. Carey, Memoirs of Carey, p. 449.). See Marshall's Chris- tian Missions, vol. i, p. 278. For Kiernander, see Bengal Obituary, p. 34 et seq : Carne, Lives of Eminent Missionaries; Asiatic Journal, vol. xv, 1834; W. H. Carey, Oriental Christian Biography, pp. 193 et seq ; Hyde, 13