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Christian missions to wrong places, among wrong races, and in wrong hand
A. C. Geekie
Paperback. General Books LLC 2009-08-14.
ISBN 9780217457163
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE NEW HOLLANDERS. O fields of missionary labour have interested the world more than those in the South Seas. Old men still remember when the story of their discovery was as fresh as is the Crimean war; and men, not yet old, read, as the proper travel books of their boyhood, the voyages of Cook, Carteret, Wallis, and Bligh. Nor can any one ever forget the air of romance, which, like the perfume of a bean-field, pervaded the boy's senses as he read these simple narratives. The islands were beautiful, the fruits were luscious, the inhabitants were noble creatures. And while all about these far-off lands is now fast changing, the interest attaching to them varies, but never lessens. Captain Cook landed at Botany Bay in 1770. What is supposed to be the precise spot was, years ago, pointed out by an aged black who witnessed the invasion; and on the spot, so pointed out, there now stands alasting monument which is itself a marvel, being the work of the teeming multitudes who now cluster round Port Jackson. When Cook landed, the aborigines were scattered along the coasts, and wandered in the interior. They never resided in villages, nor had any continuity, but moved in tribes, whose varying dialects prevented much intercourse, and whose constant wars arrested an increase, if they did not actually lead to a decline, in their numbers. They were ever a feeble and degraded people. It would be a great error, however, to understand by such statements that they were, as a race, incapables. Incapables they assuredly are not, either in mind or in body. They are savages; their life is of the lowest type; but, individually, they possess a quickness of mind as notable as is their agility of body. There is no want of capacity among them. All who speak to them, look at t
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