Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Jottings from the Pacific
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
The Religious Tract Society
Place
Date
1885
Physical Description
248 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
Part. 1. Days from home
Part 2. Bible truths illustrated by native preachers
Part 3. Zoological and botanical notes
Part 4. Miscellanea.
Public Access Text
[Keywords: Polynesia - Social life and customs; Polynesia - Description and travel]
Includes index.
Associated Notes
Subject Notes
William Wyatt Gill (27 December 1828 - 11 November 1896) was an English missionary, active in Australia and the South Pacific region after 1851. 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. In 1872 with Rev. A. W. 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.--Wikipedia, retrieved July 2020. See link in this record for the entry on Gill in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Collection Type
Reserve Collection
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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