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HENRY WELCHMAN, PRIEST
Taken about 1902

  

  

DR. WELCHMAN OF

BUGOTU

 

 

BY

ELLEN WILSON

 

 

LONDON

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE

1935

  


Chapter I. 1888-90

Chapter II. 1890-1

Chapter III. 1892-3

Chapter IV. 1893-7

Chapter V. 1897-8

Chapter VI. 1898

Chapter VII. 1898-1900

Chapter VIII. 1900-3

Chapter IX. 1903-4

Chapter X. 1903-6

Chapter XI. 1906-8

Chapter XII. 1908

Appendix


PREFACE

THIS book could not have been written without the aid of Dr. Welchman's diary, which he kept regularly through all his years in Melanesia, and from which all the extracts have been taken. Nor could it have been written without the help of my brother, who was Dr. Welchman's intimate friend.

Note. The letter g in certain names, e.g. Figirima, which = the ng of "finger," i.e. ngg, is printed without a diacritical mark in order to avoid confusion. The ng in certain names is pronounced as the ng in "singer."


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