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In The Melanesian
Languages (????), Codrington notes on page 269:
"The Personal
Article is e, but it is not used with men's names.
It personifies a
thing, e ja a person; e lololnew the surf-board swimmer."
Other Melanasian
Reports
1849 John Elphinstone
Erskine : Lufi, New Caledonia.
1857 J.C. Patteson
: Santa Cruz Islands.
1870 Unaccredited:
Love
In Fiji.
1898 Louis Becke
: A Noble Sea Game.
1899 Mrs. Edgeworth
David : Funafuti.
1900 H. Wilfrid
Walker : Surfriding in
Fiji.
Robert Henry Codrington.
(1830-1922)
"R. H.Codrington
was an Anglican priest and anthropologist who made the first study of Melanesian
society and culture.
His work is still
held as a classic of ethnography.
Codrington worked
as headmaster of the Melanesian Mission school on Norfolk Island from 1867
to 1887.
Over his many years
with the Melanesian people, he gained a deep knowledge of their society,
languages, and customs through a close association with them.
He also intensively
studied Melanesian languages, including the Mota language."
- en.wikipedia.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Henry_Codrington
R
H. CODRINGTON, D.D.
LATE OF THE MELANESIAN
MISSION
SOMETIME FELLOW
OF WADHAM COLLEGE, OXFORD
AUTHOR OF 'THE
MELANESIAN LANGUAGES'
With Illustrations
AT THE CLARENDON
PRESS
1891
[All rights reserved]
PRINTED AT THE
CLARENDON PRESS
BY HORACE HART,
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
PRINTED IN ENGLAND
V
IT has been my
endeavour in the following pages to bring together the results of such
observations as many years' acquaintance with Melanesian people has enabled
me to make.
I had once hoped
to have been able to give something more like a full account of the beliefs
and practices of the natives of those islands concerning which I have had
the opportunity of collecting information ; but my stay upon my last return
to the Melanesian Mission was too short for this, and I have now to put
forth what I know to be very incomplete.
My observations
and enquiries were carried on, and my notes were made, in the years from
1863, when I first visited the islands, to 1887, when I left the Mission
; partly in the Melanesian Islands, but mostly in Norfolk Island, where
natives of many of these islands have for many years been brought together
for instruction.
Twice during
this period I made with natives of the various islands a systematic enquiry
into the religious beliefs and practices of
the Melanesians,
and the social regulations and conditions prevailing among them.
VII
In conclusion, this book, though written by a missionary, with his full share of the prejudices and predilections belonging to missionaries, is not meant to have what is generally understood to be a missionary character ; but the writer is persuaded that one of the first duties of a missionary is to try to understand the people among whom he works, and to this end he hopes that he may have contributed something that may help.
WADHURST :
March 12, 1891.
Page 332
Page 341
In the Banks' Islands and Torres Islands, and no doubt in other groups, they use the surf-board, tapa.
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