Bauro

I'd like to see anyone call my Bauro boys savages!

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

Work to establish a conservation area in the Bauro Highlands of Makira Island, in the Solomon Islands is also underway, with the aim of having the area collectively managed by landowning groups and recognized by the government.

Biological diversity in the East Melanesian Islands 2008

I went up into the tree-house by a very good ladder of bamboos and supple-jacks, quite as easily as one goes up the rigging of a ship, and my ten days at Bauro were spent among a people whose language I know, and where my life was as safe and everybody was as disposed to be friendly as if I had been in your house at Weston.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

The 26th of May brought the vessel to Bauro, where poor old Iri was told of the death of his son, and had a long talk with Mr. Patteson, beginning with, 'Do you think I shall see him again?'

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

He called the large island Santa Cruz, and fancied the natives of the same race he had seen in Bauro, but they knew nothing of the language he had learnt there, and though courteous at first, presently discharged their arrows.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

'It may be that, could we manage to live in Bauro, or Anudha, or Mahaga, or Whitsuntide, or Lepers' Island, or Espiritu Santo, we might see soon some such change take place as we notice in Mota; but all that is uncertain, and such thoughts are useless.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

All is under my eye; and the lads daily say, "College too cold; Kohimarama very good; all the same Bauro, Mota," as the speaker belongs to one or other of our fourteen islands represented ....

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

But it is now beginning to be a real pleasure as well as duty to teach both Nengone and Bauro people.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

It was plain that enticing having failed, violence was being resorted to; and Mr. Brooke was left to an anxious sojourn, while Mr. Atkin returned to Mota on his way to his own special charge at Bauro.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

Taroniara was the only Bauro scholar brought away this time; but so many were taken from Mota that the whole party numbered thirty-seven, seven of them girls, all betrothed to one or other of the lads.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873