Among the Cannibals of New Guinea

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The following pages have been written for the directors of the London Missionary Society, as the first of a series of manuals giving an account of the different missions connected with the Society, which they are intending to publish. Before their wish to issue such a manual was made known to me, my dear friend Mr. Abraham Haworth, of Manchester, and others, had been seriously urging me to write the story of the New Guinea Mission, being the only one (as they said) who could, from experience, relate the interesting story of those first years of pioneer work, when we had to form the acquaintance and acquire the language of the savage tribes, and establish the mission, not only in perils in the sea, and in perils by the hea then, but amidst the sickness, suffering, and death of the mem bers of the mission.