: Journal of Residence in the New Hebrides S.W. Pacific Ocean by Bice Charles Brittain A - Missions Vanuatu

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JOURNAL

OF RESIDENCE IN THE NEW HEBRIDES, S.W. PACIFIC OCEAN.

WRITTEN DURING THE YEAR 1886,

BY

REVDS. C. BICE AND A. BRITTAIN.

TRURO:

NETHERTON AND WORTH, LEMON STREET.

PREFACE

I have been induced to publish the following Journals at the request of some friends who have perused them, and think they will prove interesting to others. The Journal of the Rev. A. Brittain arrived too late for insertion in the 'Island Voyage' for this year, and I have been requested by the Rev. William Selwyn, the Secretary of the Melanesian Mission, to print it with my own. I do this with the greater pleasure, because his report will not only supply me with a good excuse for rushing into print, but will furnish others with a more full and complete account of the work of the Melanesian Mission in the New Hebrides.

The three islands herein spoken of are the Northernmost of the above-mentioned group--the New Hebrides--and form the Southern boundary of the Melanesian Mission work in the islands of the South-west Pacific Ocean.

Araga and Maewo are long and mountainous islands running almost North and South, about forty miles each in length, and separated by a narrow channel three miles wide. Opa runs at right angles to these, a broad, massive, grand looking country, resembling in appearance a huge whale, the hump of which rises to a height of over 4000 feet.

Araga and Opa are thickly populated, but Maewo has a scattered and sparse population. Opa is about sixteen miles from Araga, but a channel of only five miles in width separates it from Maewo.

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