. Among the cannibals of New Guinea : being the story of the New Guinea mission of the London Missionary Society . HOIV WE GOT AT THECANNIBALS. MUST begin by describing some ofthe peculiar difficulties which we hadto encounter in conveying the mes-sage of the Cross to these cannibaltribes. In the first place, our cap-tain would not take the vessel wehad chartered , within twenty milesof the New Guinea coast, where wecommenced our mission. It was an unsurveyed was exceedingly dangerous. If he hadlost his vessel, he would have lost the insurance; sohe anchored off an island in T
. Among the cannibals of New Guinea : being the story of the New Guinea mission of the London Missionary Society . HOIV WE GOT AT THECANNIBALS. MUST begin by describing some ofthe peculiar difficulties which we hadto encounter in conveying the mes-sage of the Cross to these cannibaltribes. In the first place, our cap-tain would not take the vessel wehad chartered , within twenty milesof the New Guinea coast, where wecommenced our mission. It was an unsurveyed was exceedingly dangerous. If he hadlost his vessel, he would have lost the insurance; sohe anchored off an island in Torres Straits, twentymiles from New Guinea, and positively refused to goany nearer. Hence our first difficulty arose from the 26 AMONG THE CANNIBALS. dangerous character of the unsurveyed coast; rocks,reefs, sand-banks, mud-flats, rendered invisible by themuddy water poured out of the great rivers in thePapuan Gulf We were obliged to leave our vesseland take to the boats. How well I remember that first sail along the man-grove coast of the island, with a ie\w Lifu teachersin our boat, to form our first missio
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