The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1902-03-26

for work that they may earn money to
give to missions. Then too the con
vert should have something advisable
to occupy his mind throughout the
days besides Sunday, when he is at
religious service most of the time To
this end and also that the mission
may become self supporting by the
product of its own land, and let that
much so to other and more needy re-
gions directly from the Missionary
Society's treasury. 1900 rubber trees
have been planted, cocoanut and ba-
mana trees. OF the latter, % varieties
are in the ground properly tagged
that the best may be used in future
and the natives so notified that they
may profit by it. There are an album
dance of bananas in New Guinea but
mostly of no good except to cook,
which is the favorite way to serve
them. The road to the Angus Mission
/ travelled over on horse back and
foot. 1t is the road the missionary
must use for all his supplies on the
backs of sturdy carriers transported
from the coast about % miles dis tant.
| thought it was much further.
From Port Noresby, by whaleboat |
went to KAPPA KAPPA, marine village
entirely on piles in the water and half
q mile from the shore at high water.
Here the babies often crawl about and
fall with n splash into the water 10 feet
below, to be fished ont by the brown
parent or larger brother. A prosper
GUS village, this Papuan Venice. I
went about it in native dugout canoe
and cannot yet tell why it failed to
spill me into the water at every turn.
A naked ex-savage stood at one end
and propelled the risky craft with a
pole or paddle, manipulating the
crude float with native skill.
Then to the College of yatorata with
20 students and their 90 babies. Mr..
Riley in charge of the school and my
self took shooting boy and several
men and went inland to the Angus
Mission. The way was rocky, and
carried across rivers by fording, once
we Just escaped bad accident by my
horse getting into hole in the river
bed. About the steep tracks to miss
the footing meant death fall. This
was good for me to see what the mis-
sionary has as a steady diet in Jour
neying.
1t was long tedious ride on Christ
mas Day. I had addressed the stu
dents in the college before starting, at
an early service, and arrived after
many steep climbs and dangerous ex-
periences at the mission house about
4 p. NJ, tired and hot The mission
airy was in working attire, and had no
bread for us to eat, indeed he seldom
has that luxury, In its place baked
bananas which we found some diff
Guilty in eating. Pea soup as thick as
molasses i'll December, was our por-
ridge in the morning. Then next day
by foot we started off to Mount Doug.
lass, miles further inland, and among
natives recently made friendly. II
was necessary for us to call out mis-
sionary' on entering village for tina
was reckoned as peace Mt once by the
natives. Ali that was wonderful, tn,
wild snspecting native had learne,
that the missionary came MS friend an,
, not as foe, and gave us food and thre,
q spears to prove his skill. One trib
. had just moved down from hig
: point, no longer fearing the decimal
i, ing wars. One old chief / met ha
, killed over so men and eaten parts G
most of them He is now in great AL
thority aud provided me with the mos
tender chicken / have had in New
Gninea. lie had it cooked wrapped
in certain leaf which makes tough
meat tender. 1t seems to me there il
a fortune in that leaf for some enter
pricing Yankee to import it and sell
for the purpose used here. The watel
is carried in bamboo sticks feet long.
and when I asked for drink, was
handed one of these sticks and boy
to tilt it up for me. OF course / got
some in my mouth and some where q
small boy often gets his soup.
passed through village where Chal-
mers, the same who had his head
mashed with war club in the Arid
River delta recently, came, the first
white man they had ever seen. The
old chief told me that at first they
thought Chalmers was god, and
when he showed them his hands and
that he had skin Of white under the
outside skin (clothes) they wondered,
but seeing him eat and do human
things, they said eve will kill him, F."
but some dissented, saying che is
white and not good to eat, and then
maybe we are mistaken and he may be
q god after ALL" so the uncertainty
saved Chalmers life. They liked him
when he gave them presents and was
kind to the women and children whom
he gathered about him and made them
presents. This village of cannibals is
now called the christian Village" and
the treatment received there led me tc
hold it properly named. Remember
missions are still in infancy. Only Il
yearsag when theWesleyans first cam,
to Dubu and did their great work Their,
and even in this Christian Yillage reg
ion not over 80 years has the gospel hat
chance. And the Angus Mission il
less than a year old and already ont
village has moved permanently across
the river and eight other villages ar,
moving towards the mission. 1t is il
the midst of so villages and thousand
of natives, and now the missionar,
goes on long tramps making friends
with the tribes. lie gave out 20 axe
to efficient natives to cut timber fol
his house, and not an AK was stolen