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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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houses inmany parts of the world; in numerous islands of the Pacific its agentswere, established, and it owned lands and buildings of immense value.In the harbor of Apia, Samoa, they had a ship-yard, where they notonly repaired old ships but built new ones, and they owned several ex-cellent harbors in other parts of Polynesia. There was not a singlegroup of islands of any consequence where they were not established,and they had a great influence with the German Government. OPPOSITION TO MISSIONARY WORK. 103 Now, do you suppose this great house was friendly to the inission-aries—the men who came here and opened the way for commerce?ISot a bit of it. Here is an extract from their general orders to theiragents everywhere: Never assist missionaries by word or deed, but, wheresoever you may find them,use your best influence to obstruct and exclude tliem.* The effect of these instructions is illustrated in the experience ofthe American missionary ship Morning Star, several years ago, in a
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TRADING STATION IN THE PACIFIC. visit to the Kingsmill group of islands, near the equator. A pilot cameout to meet the ship, and made her anchor three miles from shore towait the permission of the King before any one could land. When theKing learned that it was a missionary ship, he sent word that he wouldsupply any needed provisions, but on no account could any one come onshore. The traders had told him that if anv missionaries were allowed * New Zealand Blue-book, 1874, evidence of Mr. Sterndale, late employe of Godefroy& Sons. im THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. to land they would bewitch him and his people, and he had determined to protect himself from harm. ISTumerous instances of the demoralizing effects of commerce, when controlled by bad men, can be given. The missionaries were the first to occupy Polynesia, when traders could not venture there; some of these good men lost theirlives, but the work of tam-ing the savages went on un-til commerce could followin their footst

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