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Article: Eseli's Notebook. (Reviews).(Review)
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By Peter Eseli.
Translated from Kala Lagaw Ya into English, edited and annotated by Anna Shnukal and Rod Mitchell, with Yuriko
St Lucia: University of Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit Research Report Series, volume 3 1998. Pp viii + 203.
Price $30.00; $35.00 overseas.
The London Missionary Society began evangelising the Torres Strait Islands in 1871. Among the tasks it set its teachers, who came from various parts of the Pacific, was to make the Islanders literate in their own languages, and to translate parts of the Bible for the Islanders to read. By the time the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition ...