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Samoa to ai, in Bau to kana, in Niua to kaina, in Nengone to kaka, and in New Caledonia to ki.
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It was a joke among some of us, that when asked the meaning of a Nengone term of endearment he answered naively, "Oh, it means old fellow."
Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873
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His wife, a sweet good girl, one of Mrs. Selwyn's pupils from Nengone in old times, died last year.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873
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At Nengone he shot three in cold blood who swam off to his ship, because the people of the place were said to be about to attempt to take his vessel.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873
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In the meantime Mr. Nihill went to Nengone with his wife and child.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873
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Their language has been reduced to writing, the Gospel of St. Mark translated, and they can all read a little English, so that at evening prayers we read a verse all round, and then I catechise and expound to them in Nengone.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873
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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
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'Then from Nengone, where you remember Mr. Nihill died after eighteen months' residence on the island, we have four men and two women, both married.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873
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They have 1,000 men in New Caledonia, steamers and frigates of war; and he told me plainly that this island and Nengone are considered as natural appendages of New Caledonia, and practically French possessions already, so that, of course, to attempt doing more than secure for the people a religious liberty is out of the question.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873
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It was then a great shock to hear a Nengone man call out from a sandal-wood vessel, lying in Dillon's Bay, that they had both been killed!
Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873
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