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Updated: July 29, 2025

Indeed, he came so often, getting me to read it over and over, that before he himself could read it freely, he had it word for word committed to memory. When strangers passed him, or young people came around, he would get out the little book, and say, "Come, and I will let you hear how the book speaks our own Aniwan words. You say, it is hard to learn to read and make it speak.

John Gibson Paton - The Story of John G. Paton: Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals