 How I think of those islands ! How I see those bright coral and sandy beaches, strips of burning sunshine fringing the masses of forest rising into ridges of hills, covered with a dense mat of vegetation ! Hundreds of people are crowding upon them, naked,...  A Modern Knight - Page 14by Joseph Hopkins Twichell - 1906 - 33 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English periodicals - 1874 - 924 pages
...with a dense mat of vegetation! Hundreds of people are crowding. upon them, naked, armed, with wild uncouth cries and gestures ; I cannot talk to them but by signs. But they are my children now ! May God enable me to do my duty to them ! " His next seven-months' trip among the... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Bishops - 1874 - 596 pages
...with a dense mat of vegetation. Hundreds of people are crowding upon them, naked, armed, with wild uncouth cries and gestures ; I cannot talk to them but by signs. But they are my children now ! May God enable me to do my duty to them ! I have now as I write a deepening sense... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1875 - 448 pages
...with a dense mat of vegetation ! Hundreds of people are crowding upon them, naked, armed, with wild uncouth cries and gestures ; I cannot talk to them but by signs. But they are my children now ! May God enable me to do my duty to them ! " His next seven months' trip among the... | |
 | T Erskine - Christian life - 1878 - 398 pages
...covered with a dense mat of vegetation ! Hundreds of people are crowding on them, naked, armed, with wild uncouth cries and gestures. I cannot talk to them but by signs. But they are my children now. May God enable me to do my duty by them ! I have now as I write a deepening sense... | |
 | Eleanor Catherine Price - Christian biography - 1884 - 380 pages
...with a dense mat of vegetation. Hundreds of people are crowding upon them, naked, armed, with wild uncouth cries and gestures. I cannot talk to them but by signs. But they are my children now. May God enable me to do my duty to them ! " Every cruise among the islands made more... | |
 | Robert Needham Cust - Missions - 1889 - 590 pages
...gathering round him : the time for putting in the sickle was at hand. Hundreds of people crowded together, naked, armed, with uncouth cries and gestures. I cannot talk to them but by signs : but they are my children now. May God enable me to do my duty by them ! The great Controller of the lives of men... | |
 | Robert Elliott Speer - Missionaries - 1909 - 278 pages
...hope for the individual or the nation." JOHN COLERIDGE PATTESON How I think of those islands ! . . . Hundreds of people are crowding upon them, naked, armed, with uncouth cries and gestures. . . . But they are all my children now. May God enable me to do my duty by them. — John Coleridge... | |
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