May’s indefatigable efforts, may be justly appretiated. The Branch Schools were situated, some of them, ten miles above, and some, six miles below, Chinsurah: nevertheless Mr. May and his assistants contrived to visit 26 Branch Schools sixty times in three months.
The success of Mr. May, and his unexceptionable mode of intercourse with the natives, having been brought by Mr. Forbes to the notice of the Government, a monthly sum of 600 Rupees was granted to enable Mr. May to prosecute his undertaking, Mr. Forbes being desired to superintend the detailed application of the funds.
Towards the latter end of 1815, the attendance on Mr. May’s establishments was somewhat diminished, by the formation of several Schools by natives, partly from motives of ostentation, and partly with views of opposition to Mr. May, but it soon became manifest that his plan of education was as inoffensive to their prejudices, as it was superior to their own mode of instruction, and it’s progress now exceeded his most sanguine expectation.
