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1856 Missionary Voyages Cook Islands Rarotonga Melanesia Coral Islands South Sea

1856 Missionary Voyages Cook Islands Rarotonga Melanesia Coral Islands South Sea
1856 Missionary Voyages Cook Islands Rarotonga Melanesia Coral Islands South Sea
1856 Missionary Voyages Cook Islands Rarotonga Melanesia Coral Islands South Sea
1856 Missionary Voyages Cook Islands Rarotonga Melanesia Coral Islands South Sea
1856 Missionary Voyages Cook Islands Rarotonga Melanesia Coral Islands South Sea
1856 Missionary Voyages Cook Islands Rarotonga Melanesia Coral Islands South Sea
1856 Missionary Voyages Cook Islands Rarotonga Melanesia Coral Islands South Sea
1856 Missionary Voyages Cook Islands Rarotonga Melanesia Coral Islands South Sea
1856 Missionary Voyages Cook Islands Rarotonga Melanesia Coral Islands South Sea
1856 Missionary Voyages Cook Islands Rarotonga Melanesia Coral Islands South Sea
1856 Missionary Voyages Cook Islands Rarotonga Melanesia Coral Islands South Sea
1856 Missionary Voyages Cook Islands Rarotonga Melanesia Coral Islands South Sea

1856 Missionary Voyages Cook Islands Rarotonga Melanesia Coral Islands South Sea
1856 Missionary Voyages Cook Islands Rarotonga Melanesia Coral Islands South Sea. William Wyatt Gill (1828 1896) was an English missionary, active in Australia and the South Pacific region after 1851. He was discouraged from missionary work, but he accompanied Rev. Aaron Buzacott to the Cook Islands. Rarotonga is the most populous island of the Cook Islands, with a population of 10,572 (census 2011), out of the country's total resident population of 14,974.

Captain John Dibbs, master of the colonial brig Endeavour, is credited as the European discoverer on 25 August 1823, while transporting the missionary Rev. This book is a history of Christian missionaries in Melanesia. Gems from the Coral Islands, or, Incidents of contrast between savage and Christian life of the South Sea Islanders.

Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication, [1856]. A Coral Reef, Lagoon Island. Wear as seen in photos. Complete with all 285 pages; plus indexes, prefaces, and such; frontispiece loose but present. 7.5in X 5.5in (19cm x 14cm).

William Wyatt Gill (27 December 1828 11 November 1896) was an English missionary, active in Australia and the South Pacific region after 1851. Gill was born in Bristol, England, son of John Gill of Barton Hill and his wife Jane, daughter of Richard Wyatt. Educated in Kingsland Congregational Chapel, Bristol, he became a member at the age of 14 and had an early interest in the ministry. After three years study at Highbury College, London, and a year of study at New College, University of London B.

1850, he was discouraged from missionary work, but his eagerness to accompany Rev. Aaron Buzacott to the Cook Islands met with approval and in June 1851 he was accepted by the London Missionary Society. Gill accompanied Buzacott and Henry Hopkins on missionary work at Launceston, Melbourne and Geelong.

On 23 November 1851 he reached Sydney where he met Mary Layman Harrison, a pious Anglican, whom he married 19 December. In 1852-72 Gill worked at Mangaia, Cook Islands, except for five months in 1858 at Rarotonga in charge of the institution for training native teachers and a visit to Sydney in 1862-63. Murray he visited the principal islands in Torres Strait and on 7 November landed the first teachers, including six Cook Islanders, at Kataw in New Guinea.

In 1873 he sailed for England where he read to the Royal Geographical Society his paper'A Visit to Torres Straits and Mainland of New Guinea'. Gill was stationed on Rarotonga from April 1877 until he retired in November 1883 after his wife died in July.

In 1889 the University of St Andrews conferred on him an honorary doctorate. He died on 11 November 1896 and was buried in the Waverley Cemetery, Sydney. He was survived by his second wife and by seven of the ten children of his first marriage. His eldest daughter Honor was married to a missionary in Samoa.

Life in the Southern Isles; or, Scenes and Incidents in the South Pacific and New Guinea (London, 1876). Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (London, 1876). Historical Sketches of Savage Life in Polynesia (Wellington, 1880). Work and Adventure in New Guinea 1877 to 1885 (London, 1885). Jottings from the Pacific (London, 1885). From Darkness to Light in Polynesia (London, 1894). The item "1856 Missionary Voyages Cook Islands Rarotonga Melanesia Coral Islands South Sea" is in sale since Monday, December 28, 2015. This item is in the category "Books\Antiquarian & Collectible". The seller is "schilb_antique_books" and is located in Columbia, Missouri. This item can be shipped worldwide.
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: Exploration & Travel
  • Topic: Australia, Oceania
  • Special Attributes: 1st Edition
  • Origin: American
  • Year Printed: 1856
  • Printing Year: 1856

1856 Missionary Voyages Cook Islands Rarotonga Melanesia Coral Islands South Sea