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As soon as the ship appeared, the natives launched their canoes and paddled
out to meet them, filling the air with chatter and laughter and snatches of song.
They were woolly haired, lightly clad, graceful people — brown children of the ...
As soon as the ship appeared, the natives launched their canoes and paddled
out to meet them, filling the air with chatter and laughter and snatches of song.
They were woolly haired, lightly clad, graceful people — brown children of the ...
Page 171
He fully appreciated the necessity of providing the natives with an incentive to
work, but he at once realized the danger of taking them away from their own
islands under the indenture system. How could men, ignorant of the native
language, ...
He fully appreciated the necessity of providing the natives with an incentive to
work, but he at once realized the danger of taking them away from their own
islands under the indenture system. How could men, ignorant of the native
language, ...
Page 177
A captive native sprang on to the rail and called " Pishopa ! Pishopa !" but he was
immediately pulled back on to the ship, and the vessel showed a clean pair of
heels. Two natives from Santo told the Bishop that the natives had overpowered
a ...
A captive native sprang on to the rail and called " Pishopa ! Pishopa !" but he was
immediately pulled back on to the ship, and the vessel showed a clean pair of
heels. Two natives from Santo told the Bishop that the natives had overpowered
a ...
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Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE LURE OF THE PACIFIC | 1 |
n THE BOY AND THE MAN | 9 |
MEETING HIS HERO | 23 |
15 other sections not shown
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Patteson of Melanesia: a brief life of John Coleridge Patteson, missionary bishop |
| Author | Frank Hume Lyall Paton |
| Publisher | Society for promoting Christian knowledge |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 6 Nov 2008 |
| Length | 209 pages |
| Subjects | Bishops Missionaries |
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