Erromanga

Look at the missionaries in New Guinea and the New Hebrides -- the martyr isle of Erromanga and all the rest.

THE INEVITABLE WHITE MAN 2010

Nine missionaries were set apart; four for the South Seas, one of whom was John Williams, the martyr of Erromanga, and five for

Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman David J. Deane

The hero who had carried the flaming torch of peace on earth to the savages on scores of islands across the great Pacific Ocean was dead -- the first martyr of Erromanga.

The Book of Missionary Heroes Basil Mathews

John Williams, the torch-bearer of the Pacific, whom the brown men loved, the great pioneer, who dared death on the grey beach of Erromanga, sounds a morning bugle-call to us, a Reveillè to our slumbering camps:

The Book of Missionary Heroes Basil Mathews

From the number of skulls found in the huts at the island of Erromanga (New Hebrides group), and the ribs being also worn in clusters, as ornaments, in the ears, they very probably form an article of food among the natives.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 530, January 21, 1832 Various

It had been christened _John Williams_ after the great hero missionary [34] who gave up his life on the beach of Erromanga.

The Book of Missionary Heroes Basil Mathews

As he thought of the fierce men of Erromanga he thought of the waving forests of brown hands he had seen, the shouts of "Come back again to us!" that he had heard as he left his own islands.

The Book of Missionary Heroes Basil Mathews

As an evidence of the great desire of the natives of both sexes to leave their native land, I may mention the offers which were made to the commander of the ship, of baskets of potatoes and hogs, as an inducement to be carried to the island of Erromanga, where our vessel was next bound to.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832 Various

Williams, the martyr missionary of Erromanga, viewed the introduction of bonnets among the women of Raratonga; but it was not the greatest of his triumphs after all.

Mushrooms on the Moor Frank Boreham 1915

The large island of Erromanga has but little native population, and that is all christianized; the same is true of the smaller islands of

Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914