Diamonds, unpolished and polished by Richmond John Francis

Author:Richmond, John Francis. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Conduct of life
Publisher: New York, Nelson & Phillips
Published: 1875-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

ments of nature, these islands lay for many centuries entirely untouched by the civilization and Christianity of the world. Discovered by Tasman in the seventeenth century, and visited by Cook and Bligh in the eighteenth, the civilized world obtained no definite knowledge concerning them until within the last fifty years. Some early travelers had described these savages as a peaceful, happy, and somewhat virtuous people. About 1835 some English missionaries, with Bible in hand, entered this unknown field. With the climate and soil of the region they were completely charmed. The seeds of. vegetables grew out of the soil in one day after planting, rare fruits and flowers covered the valleys and plains, and waved on the summits of the highest mountains ; but O how vile was man ! Every heart gloated in beastly enormity. Polytheism, polygamy, parent-murder, strangling of widows, infanticide, unstinted licentiousness, tyranny of woman, the horrors of inhuman and perpetual wars, all crowned with a dreadful passion for feasting on human flesh, which was frequently and horribly gratified. The inhabitants of one district had been from generation to generation preserved

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