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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melan... ... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ...e Samoan or Navi- gators’ Islands, in which were educated young men of the native races to be sent to the isles to prepare the way for white men. Very... ...te man. Moreover, the language was no easier to them than to him, as their native speech is entirely different from the Melanesian; which is besides b... ...fs. Unfortunately the place where we landed was neutral ground between two tribes, who both brought yams to the place to sell. One party said another ... ...as still entertained; but he had not much hope of this being useful to the tribes, though it might be to the individuals, and none of them ever were s... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave...