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Title: Dictionary and grammar of the language of Saa and Ulawa, Solomon islands
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Ivens, Walter G. (Walter George), b. 1871
Subjects: Saa language Ulawa language Missions -- Melanesia Melanesian languages Melanesia
Publisher: Washington : Carnegie institution of Washington
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tionin the estimate of the value of the other languages of the Mission.Mota was the language and the enlightenment or the importance of aplace was measured at times by the ability or otherwise of its people tospeak Mota. The unquestioned usefulness and the predominance ofMota tended to put all the other languages into the background andhad a prejudicial effect on the study of them. Britishers as a rule areinclined possibly to treat sets of instructions as unnecessary and grand-motherly, and the non-provision of the missionaries of the MelanesianMission with the best wisdom of the day with regard to the needs oftheir life was due in the first place to this dislike of being ordered aboutand of having to live according to rule and of assimilating their ideasto a set of formal conditions, and in the second place was the direct con-sequence of the old view that the life of the missionaries in the islandswas an incidental break in the regular round of duties at Norfolk Island. IVENS PLATE 2
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rholo by Heaitif. Hobarl. A. Recruiting Boat at a Market in Malaita. The Women in the Canoes are waiting to exchange their Fish for Garden Produce. B. Women Traders, etc., Malaita. YACHTING IN MELANESIA. It did not need the mistake of a clerk in drawing out the letterspatent of Bishop G. A. Selwyns commission to act as bishop from lat.50° S. to 34° N. (2. e., from the Auckland Islands to the Carolines) todirect the Bishops attention to the islands of Melanesia. In 1847,when Selwyn first went to Melanesia, Fiji had already been partiallyChristianized, Tonga and Samoa were practically Christian, the Frenchwere beginning to occupy New Caledonia, and the London MissionarySociety had Rarotongan teachers in the southern New Hebrides andthe Loyalties; John Williams had been murdered in Erromango, anda French Roman Catholic bishop had been killed at Ysabel, SolomonIslands. Selwyn wrote in 1849: While I have been sleeping in my bed in New Zealand, these islands,the Isle of Pines, New Caledon

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