"THE CITY OF REFUGE."
MISSION IN THE NEW HEBRIDES. CONGREGATION OF CANNIBALS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, May 13. At a Presbyterian Assembly • Foreign Mission meeting, the Rev. F. Paton, a New Hebrides missionary, describing tho New Hebrides mission, said the elders of the church there were mostly exmurderers. In the congregation, he said, all the old men had been cannibals. Many of them had buried their children alive. Tribal murders were common, and ho had had to build a stone'wall round tho mission, which was called "the city of refuge."
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1749, 14 May 1913, Page 7
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90"THE CITY OF REFUGE." Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1749, 14 May 1913, Page 7
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