Anecdotes of aborigines; or, Illustrations of the coloured races being 'men and brethren' [compiled by T.F. Ball].1881 |
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ABBEGA African afterwards Aitutaki ALMANAC amongst Anecdotes asked Avaiki BAND OF MERCY Bible Blake blessing Bress BRITISH WORKMAN CAFFRE Cherries chief child Christian Cloth coloured converted death drink England exclaimed father fear Fiji friends Full-page Engravings gave gilt edges give Gospel hand happy hear heard heart heathen horse Hottentot Illus Inchinnan INFANTICIDE Ischi Jesus Christ John Kaffir Kajarnack Kama kill King Kuruman labour lived London look massa mercy Michael Donovan minister missionary Moffatt Moses mother native negro never Ngapuhi numerous Illustrations Packet Papeiha Paternoster Row Philip Reeve poor Indian pray prayer preach Rachel Hunter Radama religion replied Ripa S. W. PARTRIDGE Scripture Sechele Sierra Leone slave soon soul South Sea Islands Story thought told took tribe vessel village warrior whilst wife Williams woman words Yearly Volume young
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Page 18 - As soon as he had an opportunity of learning, he set himself to read with such close application that, from being comparatively thin, the effect of having been fond of the chase, he became quite corpulent from want of exercise. Mr. Oswell gave him his first lesson in figures, and he acquired the alphabet on the first day of my residence at Chonuane.
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Page 20 - When he at last applied for baptism, I simply asked him how he, having the Bible in his hand, and able to read it, thought he ought to act. He went home, gave each of his superfluous wives new clothing, and all his own goods, which they had been accustomed to keep in their huts for him, and sent them to their parents with an intimation that he had no fault to find with them, but that in parting with them he wished to follow the will of God.
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Page 59 - That is my canoe, in which I go down to the teachers, get some religion, which I bring carefully home, and give to the people ; and when that is gone, I take my canoe again, and fetch some more. And now you are come, for whom we have been so long waiting. Where is our teacher? Give me a man full of religion, that I may not expose my life to danger, by going so long a distance to fetch it.
Page 19 - Sechele continued to make a consistent profession for about three years ; and perceiving at last some of the difficulties of his case, and also feeling compassion for the poor women, who were by far the best of our scholars, I had no desire that he should be in any hurry to make a full profession by baptism, and putting away all his wives but one. His principal wife, too, was about the most unlikely subject in the tribe ever to become anything else than an out-and-out greasy disciple of the old school.