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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...ry Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...toms have introduced restraints against at least the outward expression of vice; but the capacity for the Christian life is there; though overlaid, it... ...ted, where a perfect flotilla of canoes came off to greet her, and the two chiefs, Iri and Eimaniaka, came on board, and no less than fifty-five men w... ...d Eimaniaka, came on board, and no less than fifty-five men with them. The chiefs and about a dozen men were invited to spend the night on board. The ... ...not have been less than 450. They behaved very well. Of the five principal chiefs three could talk some Bauro language, so I could communicate with th... ... there. On the New Year’s day of 1859 there was a joyful thanksgiving ser- vice at Taurarua for their safe return, at which all the best Church people... ...ot much doubt …. ‘April 24—I have to get ready for three English full ser- vices to-morrow, besides Melanesian ditto.—So goodbye, my dearest Father, ‘...