This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...the tropics, the climate is delightful, the thermometer only ranging seventeen degrees in three years. Everything in the natural surroundings was most attractive, with the usual exception--that "only man is vile;" and very vile they proved here. However, when the vessel anchored in the landlocked harbour of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...the tropics, the climate is delightful, the thermometer only ranging seventeen degrees in three years. Everything in the natural surroundings was most attractive, with the usual exception--that "only man is vile;" and very vile they proved here. However, when the vessel anchored in the landlocked harbour of Ponape, the king came on board, welcomed the strangers, and said it would be "good for them to stop." So they disembarked, and soon discovered a population of about 5000 persons, whose leaf-huts were hidden among the overhanging forests. Here Messrs Sturges, Gulick, Kaaikaula, and their wives, began work; while Mr MISSION TO THE CAROLINE GROUP. 175-Snow and Opunui settled on Kusaie, which is also a mountainous isle, about 2000 feet in height, and wooded to the summit. The population numbered about 1500, and proved singularly attractive. Strange to say, polygamy was unknown, and the manufacture of all intoxicating drinks was strictly prohibited. The new-comers and their message were alike kindly received, and few distractions from the outer world came to interfere with their work. So isolated is the isle, that two years elapsed ere a letter reached them from America. The good seed took root quickly, but no care could check the strange, sad mortality among the people. In 1869, the report from Kusaie stated the population to be only 600 natives, and not one white man (Mr Snow having gone to a new post in the Marshall Isles). But a native pastor was in charge of the isle, and the people had built for themselves four churches, in which they regularly assembled for worship--in each case conducted by an ordained native minister. The work at Ponape proved more difficult. In the first six months fifteen vessels called; and though in...
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