| Description |
1 volume |
| Summary |
Contains entries in pencil or ink for most days between 1 January and 19 September 1927, recording the daily regimen of a Seventh-day Adventist missionary at Bisiatabu mission station in the hinterland of Central Province, Papua, including details of religious instruction, prayer meetings and church services, reports on missionary movements, local travel, the upkeep of the mission plantation, and logistical information concerning the supply of provisions, building maintenance etc. Nearly all of the entries make reference to local villages, language groups and specific individuals using their indigenous names. In June 1927 the diarist records his trip from Bisiatabu to the remote mission station at Efogi, on the Kokoda Trail in the rugged mountains of the Owen Stanley Range. |
| Notes |
Title supplied by Cataloguer |
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Attributed to Albert Bateman, who had trained as a missionary at Avondale and as a nurse at the Sydney Sanitarium. |
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Papua New Guinea -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116520
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Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116522
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Missionaries -- Papua New Guinea.
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Seventh-Day Adventists -- Missions
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