. Among the cannibals of New Guinea : being the story of the New Guinea mission of the London Missionary Society . nguage,any more than Messrs. Lawes and Chalmers could talkto the Lifu and Mare men in theirs ; and moreover noone can manage these Polynesian teachers like theirown missionaries. I was delighted therefore whenMessrs. Sharpe and Savage arrived from England totake charge of this eastern branch of our mission. It was quite a red-letter day when I introducedthem to the teachers and people as the missionarieswho were going to settle amongst them. Theyassembled in great numbers from all
. Among the cannibals of New Guinea : being the story of the New Guinea mission of the London Missionary Society . nguage,any more than Messrs. Lawes and Chalmers could talkto the Lifu and Mare men in theirs ; and moreover noone can manage these Polynesian teachers like theirown missionaries. I was delighted therefore whenMessrs. Sharpe and Savage arrived from England totake charge of this eastern branch of our mission. It was quite a red-letter day when I introducedthem to the teachers and people as the missionarieswho were going to settle amongst them. Theyassembled in great numbers from all sides, bringingpresents of food of all kinds, and in the best waythey could conceive showed their delight and grati-tude. The missionaries were greatly pleased with allthey saw, and after carefully surveying the wholedistrict, decided to make their headquarters atSamarai, which I had selected six years before asbeing the most suitable place for the central sta-tion. Both Messrs. Sharpe and Savage however gottheir baptism of fever at Port Moresby, whilst ontheir way to settle at China Straits ; from which the. DINNER ISLAND (SAMARAl), CHINA STRAITS. RESULTS: THEN AND NOW. 159 former died, the latter proceeding to Murray Island,where he recovered, and joined the western branch ofthe mission. The Rev. Albert Pearse, who for manyyears has been labouring in the South Pacific, has beenappointed to carry on the work in this most interest-ing and most successful branch of our mission. Someof our Lifu and Mare teachers have died, and theremainder have returned to their homes, their placesbeing filled by Eastern Polynesian teachers, some ofwhom have been trained by Mr. Pearse, and withwhose language he is, of course, familiar. He hasfor his colleague a young man whom I met severalyears ago in Adelaide. He was then a very promis-ing student in the college there, and spoken of veryhighly by the professors and ministers, who expressedtheir disappointment at his wish to go to NewGuinea, reg
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