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A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands With Remarks Upon the Natural History of the Islands Origin Languages Traditions and Usages of the Inhabitants 1st Edition by John Williams ISBN 1108008321 9781108008327

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Author(s): John Williams
ISBN(s): 9781108008327, 1108008321
Edition: 1
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Year: 2010
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1108008321 
ISBN 13: 9781108008327
Author: John Williams

Based on John Williams’ meticulous documentation of his travels, this 1837 volume offers an insight into the perilous life of a missionary in the early nineteenth century. The author, an ironmonger by trade, set sail for the South Sea Islands in 1817 with the intention of spreading the gospel and introducing modern technology to the region. As well as recounting the frequent threats to his safety from angry natives, war, natural disaster and disease, Williams provides detailed surveys of the peoples, languages and natural environment he encountered and describes with great exuberance and humour ‘the impression made upon barbarous people by their first intercourse with civilised man’. Made more poignant by the author’s death at the hands of cannibals just two years after the book’s publication, this is an extraordinary account of the perseverance and ingenuity of a man who became a hero and martyr for the Protestant missionary movement.

A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands With Remarks Upon the Natural History of the Islands Origin Languages Traditions and Usages of the Inhabitants 1st Table of contents:

  1. A mission to the isles of the Pacific resolved upon

  2. Geographical description of the Hervey Island

  3. Voyage to New South Wales

  4. Mission to Aitutaki

  5. Papeiha’s narrative continued

  6. Voyage to Atiu

  7. Rorotonga discovered

  8. Mr Bourne’s voyage

  9. The adoption of a code of laws

  10. Mrs Williams’s illness

  11. Mr Buzacott’s arrival

  12. Papeiha’s narrative

  13. Tradition

  14. Mr Platt’s voyage

  15. Sail for the Navigators Islands

  16. Atiu

  17. Leave Aitutaki

  18. Hapai Islands

  19. Sail for the Navigators

  20. An interesting meeting

  21. Compelled by a contrary wind to leave Savage Island

  22. Distresses at Raiatea

  23. The Messenger of Peace driven on shore

  24. Second visit to the Navigators

  25. Arrival at Manono

  26. Visit to Amos

  27. Runaway convicts, etc.

  28. Discovery of the Samoa Group

  29. Distinct races of Polynesians

  30. The two languages of the South Sea Islanders

  31. Religion of the Polynesians

  32. Providential interposition of the Samoans

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