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- proper noun An
Oceanic language of Vanuatu.
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Examples
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In 1848 Roman Catholic missionaries settled in Aneityum, but soon gave up the station; in 1887 they returned and spread all over the archipelago, with the exception of the southern islands and the
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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One morning, just as the faint outline of the coast of Aneityum was peering up over the horizon ahead, Wetherell and I chanced to be sitting in the bows.
A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta Guy Boothby 1886
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At length the people of Aneityum came to the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals John Gibson Paton 1865
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But as time went on, it was discovered that the Teachers belonged to the Tribe on Aneityum, and one of them to the very land, where long ago the Aniwans had been murdered.
The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals John Gibson Paton 1865
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And, as if to make me realize how bare the Lord had stripped me in my late trials, the first thing that occupied me on board was the making with my own hands, from a piece of cloth obtained on Aneityum, another shirt for the voyage, to change with that which I wore -- the only one that had been left to me.
The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals John Gibson Paton 1865
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A _Sandal-wooder, _ then lying at Aneityum, was to sail in a few days direct for Sydney.
The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals John Gibson Paton 1865
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Aneityum, the most southerly island of the New Hebrides, in 1848; and the Rev. John Inglis and his wife, from Scotland, were landed on the other side of the same island, in 1852.
The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals John Gibson Paton 1865
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Aneityum, leaving them where Dr. Inglis has since built his beautiful
The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals John Gibson Paton 1865
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After pulling for hours and hours, under the scorching rays of a tropical sun, we were all safely landed on shore at Aneityum, about six o'clock in the evening of 30th August, just four months and fourteen days since we sailed from Greenock.
The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals John Gibson Paton 1865
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I bought the heavy wood for it on Aneityum -- price, fifty pairs of trousers for
The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals John Gibson Paton 1865
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