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He had lately established, near Auckland, for the sons of the colonists, St. John's College, which in 1850 was placed under the Reverend Charles John Abraham, the former Eton master, who had joined the Bishop to act as Archdeacon and assist in the scheme of education; and here it was planned that the young Melanesians should be trained.
Hawkesworth, Account of the Voyages, etc., 1775, vol. ii, p. 254. R.W. Codrington, The Melanesians, p. 235. F.S. Krauss, Romanische Forschungen, 1903, p. 290. H. Schurtz, Altersklassen und Männerbünde, 1902, p. 190. Cf. Robertson Smith, Religion of Semites, second edition, p. 59. Herodotus, Bk. I, Ch. CXCIX; Baruch, Ch. VI, p. 43.
Then let him take a voyage with me, see Melanesians in their own homes, stop for a while at Mota e.g. make trial of the climate, &c., &c., and then let me have my decisive talk with him. 'If he will not do for the work, I must try and find other employment for him in some New Zealand diocese, or help to pay his passage home.
I don't profess to know much of the treatment of the Islanders on the plantations. "I am very thankful to hear that the Dunedin question is settled at length, and so satisfactorily. "The synod papers are not yet brought up in our things from the Southern Cross. "I must end. Melanesians and English folk are streaming in and out of my room.... "Yours very truly, "J. C. PATTESON."
'My dearest Joan and Fan, Here I am sitting in a most comfortable house in our new Kohimarama, for so the Melanesians determine to call our station in Mota. The house is 48 feet by 18, with a 9-foot verandah on two sides. It has one large room, a partition at each end, one of which is subdivided into two small sleeping rooms for George and his wife, and Charles and his wife.
I write all this because you will like to think that some of this little offertory comes bond fide from Melanesians. ...You take me to mean, I hope, that Christianity is the religion for mankind at large, capable of dealing with the spiritual and bodily needs of man everywhere.
Unlike the cowardly Melanesians, the people were high-stomached and warlike.
The superstition is current all over the East Indies without exception, and it is found also among the Motu and Motumotu tribes, the Papuans of Finsch Haven in North New Guinea, the Nufoors of Dutch New Guinea, and the Melanesians of the Bismarck Archipelago.
'My dear dear Friends, Yesterday the "Southern Cross" came to me at Mota, twenty-seven days after leaving that island for Norfolk Island with some fifty Melanesians on board under charge of Bice. 'Into what a new world your many kind affectionate letters take me! And how good it must be for me to be taught to think more than I, alas! usually do, about the trials and sorrows of others.
These we know: the inner religion we ought to begin to recognise that we do not know. The case of the Andamanese has taught us how vague, even now, is our knowledge, and how obscure is our problem. The example of the Melanesians enforces these lessons. It is hard to bring the Melanesians within any theory. Dr.
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