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Adventures in New Guinea
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Title: Adventures in New Guinea
Author: James Chalmers
Release Date: February 6, 2006 [eBook #17694]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ADVENTURES IN NEW GUINEA***
Transcribed from the 1886 Religious Tract Society edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE R. T. S. LIBRARY--ILLUSTRATED
ADVENTURES IN NEW GUINEA BY JAMES CHALMERS OF PORT MORESBY
WITH SIX ILLUSTRATIONS
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY 56, PATERNOSTER ROW; 65, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD; AND 164, PICCADILLY 1886.
LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
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INTRODUCTION.
Public attention has been repeatedly and prominently directed to New Guinea during the last few months. The name often appears in our newspapers and missionary reports, and bids fair to take a somewhat prominent place in our blue-books. Yet very few general readers possess accurate information about the island itself, about the work of English missionaries there, or about the part New Guinea seems destined to play in Australian politics. Hence a brief sketch indicating the present state of knowledge on these points will be a fitting introduc