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... Village of Malinunu - Vegetables and fish- Advantages of Anglo - American companies , . CHAPTER VIII . The Ishmaelites of the Pacific - Injudicious intervention - Fa - Samoa picnic - A torchlight walk - Training - college at Malua - Apt ...
... Village of Malinunu - Vegetables and fish- Advantages of Anglo - American companies , . CHAPTER VIII . The Ishmaelites of the Pacific - Injudicious intervention - Fa - Samoa picnic - A torchlight walk - Training - college at Malua - Apt ...
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... village called Maofanga , where there is another Wesleyan church , but it is chiefly a Roman Catholic settlement ; and near a neat thatched chapel of the true Tongan type , I see a long pleasant - looking bungalow , which I am told is a ...
... village called Maofanga , where there is another Wesleyan church , but it is chiefly a Roman Catholic settlement ; and near a neat thatched chapel of the true Tongan type , I see a long pleasant - looking bungalow , which I am told is a ...
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... village of Bea , about four miles from here . Another very sad memory clings to this place - namely , that of the barbarous massacre in the year 1799 of three of the very first missionaries who ever landed in the South Pacific . A party ...
... village of Bea , about four miles from here . Another very sad memory clings to this place - namely , that of the barbarous massacre in the year 1799 of three of the very first missionaries who ever landed in the South Pacific . A party ...
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... village of Maofanga , where we found the bishop at the house of the Fathers . Père Lamaze then brought me here to the good Sisters , who received me with open arms . The delicate one immediately slipped 1 Since the above was written ...
... village of Maofanga , where we found the bishop at the house of the Fathers . Père Lamaze then brought me here to the good Sisters , who received me with open arms . The delicate one immediately slipped 1 Since the above was written ...
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... village , we lingered beneath the fine old trees known as Captain Cook's , till summoned by the Fathers to supper at their house , which stands close to the church . They gave the best they had , -namely , salt - junk and villanously ...
... village , we lingered beneath the fine old trees known as Captain Cook's , till summoned by the Fathers to supper at their house , which stands close to the church . They gave the best they had , -namely , salt - junk and villanously ...
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