A Cyclopedia of Missions Containing a Comprehensive View of Missionary Operati
A Cyclopedia of Missions Containing a Comprehensive View of Missionary Operati
Newcomb, Harvey, 1803-1863
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— These islands afford almost every variety of soil, which produces wheat, barley, maize, beans, peas, and various grasses in abundance. Most of the trees are evergreens, and vegetation is scarcely ever sus- pended. Inhabitants. — When first discovered, the New-Zealanders were a savage and barbarous people. When a child was born, it was wrap- ped in a coarse cloth, and laid in a verandah to sleep ; and in a few hours, the mother pur- sued her ordinary work in the field. The child suffered much ...; and if its mother did not fur- nish it nourishment enough, it must perish. Large holes were slit in the ear, and a stick, half an inch in diameter, thrust through. When five days old, the child was carried to a stream of water, and either dipped or sprinkled, and a name given to it ; and a priest mum- bled a prayer, the purport of which was said to be, an address to some unknown spirit, pray- ing that he may so influence the child that he may become cruel, brave, warlike, troublesome, adulterous, murderous, a liar, a thief, disobe- dient, in a word, guilty of every crime.
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