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. 1880 Excerpt: ...that their conduct has been a faithful transcript of the teaching they have received. 'Now, be it remembered that these men are Rarotongaus. Rarotonga has been christianized for more than forty years. These men were all born Christians, and never knew what the cruelties of heathenism were. For the first twenty or ...
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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. 1880 Excerpt: ...that their conduct has been a faithful transcript of the teaching they have received. 'Now, be it remembered that these men are Rarotongaus. Rarotonga has been christianized for more than forty years. These men were all born Christians, and never knew what the cruelties of heathenism were. For the first twenty or thirty years of their life they were under the teaching of Mr. Buzacott, or Mr. Pitman, or Mr. William Gill, or Mr. George Gill, men whose names are household words wherever the history of the South Sea missions is known. For the last ten or twelve years, they have been under the teaching of Mr. Krause or Mr. Chalmers, men whose teaching has been precisely that of their predecessors. 'Be it further remembered, that these men are not ordinary average Rarotongau Christians. They are select men--men chosen for the excellence of their Christian character, and their aptitude for learning, and placed for a series of years at the Teachers' Institution, to receive from the missionary himself a special teaching and training to fit them for the work of an evangelist among the heathen. 'It is admitted by all the white men that William, alias Munakoa, had nothing to do with the attack. Bartlett, the master of the Fanny, even admits that he owes his life to William; but then he holds that Ta and Iona were in the plot, especially Ta. It must be remembered that the Karotongau teachers were placed in circumstances of very great danger; it was at the peril of their own lives that they gave any protection or assistance to the captain or the mate, and whatever they did, had to be done with extreme caution. No one who knows anything of these men, living as they were, for the time being, in one house, and as one family, could for a moment believe that one part of them ...
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Good with no dust jacket. xv, 485pp + 6 unnumbered pages. Frontis, map, appendices. Signed: "With the Author's Compliments 1884" Book has green cloth cover with black design on the front and back covers, spine has gold and white text. Wear and tears to the head, tail and corners, corners are bumped, covers have marks, corners are bumped. Front inner hinge shows small crack, first signature slightly loosened, back inner hinge shows obvious repair. Ex-library with stamps, text on spine, pocket, minor marginalia throughout, otherwise text is clear.; Ex-Library; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 506 pages; Signed by Author.
