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The History of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830, Written by John Davies, Missionary to the South Sea Islands

With Supplementary Papers of the Missionaries

Edited by
C.W. NEWBURY

First published by Ashgate Publishing

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ISBN 13: 978-1-4094-1482-7 (hbk)

WOHKS ISSUED BY

THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY

THE HISTORY
OF THE TAHITIAN MISSION
1799-1830

SECOND SEMES
No, CXVI

ISSUED FOR 1959

HAKLUYT SOCIETY

PATRON

H.R.H. THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, K.G., P.C., K.T., K.P. COUNCIL AND OFFICERS, 1960

PRESIDENT

Sir ALAN BURNS, G.C.M.G.

VICE-PRESIDENTS

Professor E. G. R. TAYLOR, D.SC. Professor D. B. QUINN

JAMES A. WILLIAMSON, Esq., D.Lit. J. N. L. BAKER, Esq., M.A., B.Litt.

COUNCIL (WITH DATE OF ELECTION)

K. R. ANDREWS, Esq., Ph.D. (1958)

Professor C. F. BECKINGHAM (1958)

Professor C. R. BOXER (1960)

EILA M. J. CAMPBELL, M.A. (1958) Professor G. S. GRAHAM (1960)

Sir MAURICE HOLMES, G.B.E., K.C.B. (1957)

Professor C. C. LLOYD (1958) Dr. J. W. S. MARR (1960)

Commander R. D. MERRIMAN, R.I.N., D.S.C. (1957)

G. P. B. NAISH, Esq., (1960)

N. M. PENZER, Esq., Hon. Ph.D. (1958)

Professor D. B. QUINN (1957)

Royal Geographical Society (General Sir JAMES MARSHALL-CORNWALL)

HELEN M. WALLIS, D.Phil. (1957)

Lieut.-Commander D. W. WATERS, R.N.

D. P. J. WOOD, Esq., Ph.D.

Sir RICHARD WINSTEDT, K.B.E., C.M.G., F.B.A., D.Litt.

TRUSTEES

J. N. L. BAKER, Esq., M.A., B.Litt. E. W. BOVILL, Esq., F.S.A. Sir GILBERT LAITHWAITE, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.C.I.E., C.S.I.

TREASURER

F. B. MAGGS, Esq.

HON. SECRETARY

R. A. SKELTON, Esq., B.A., F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S., British Museum, London, W.C.I

HON. SECRETARIES FOR OVERSEAS

Australia: G. D. RICHARDSON, Esq., The Public Library of N.S.W. MacQuarie Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

Canada: Professor J. B. BIRD, McGill University, Montreal. New Zealand: C. R. H. TAYLOR, Esq., M.A., Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, N.Z.

South Africa: DOUGLAS VARLEY, Esq., South African Library, Cape Town.

U.S.A.: W. M. WHITEHILL, Esq., Ph.D., F.S.A., Boston Athenaeum, 10 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

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THE HISTORY OF THE TAHITIAN MISSION 17991830

WRITTEN BY

JOHN DAVIES

MISSIONARY TO THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS

WITH SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MISSIONARIES

Edited by
C. W. NEWBURY

PUBLISHED BY

THE SYNDICS OF THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVEBSITY PRESS

Bentley House, 200 Euston Road, London, N.W. 1

American Branch: 32 East 57th Street, New York 22, N.Y.

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THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY
1961

E teie net, e haere outou e faa riro i te mau fenua toa ei pipi, a bapetizo atu ai ia ratou i roto i te ioa o te Metus, e no te Tamaiti, e no te Varua Maitai.

Mataio, xxviii, 19

Printed in Great Britain
by Robert MacLehose and Company Limited
at the University Press, Glasgow

THE writing and, even more, the editing of missionary history has largely remained the preserve of the metropolitan supporters of missionary organizations. Much of the work which has been so produced belongs in the border-lands between history and propaganda: the beliefs and practices of non-Christian peoples are blackened by caricature; the human frailties of missionaries are concealed; the character and extent of missionary success are oversimplified and exaggerated. Sometimes these faults have been the product mainly of ignorance and of an uncritical cast of mind; but at other times they have had their origin in a conscious desire to edify supporters and to win new friends. (In the latter circumstance, the writers have been guilty, in John Daviess opinion, of pious fraud.) But there have always been writers equally committed to the missionary cause who have striven for a truer understanding and for the communication of the complex reality of the missionary situation with all the fidelity of which they were capable. To such writers often, like Davies, men with long experience in the fielda great debt is owed.

The impact of Christian missions upon non-Western societies, such as those of Polynesia, has been both complex and profound. On the one hand, the quality and characteristics of the churches which have been created have depended not only upon the nature of missionary teaching but also upon that of other Western influences political, social, and economicand upon the values and institutions of indigenous society. On the other hand, the work of the missions has penetrated every aspect of the process of change by which non-Western peoples have adapted themselves to the conditions of the modern world. To anyone who knows Polynesia in our own times, these propositions require no more than brief, formal statement: the everyday speech and action of the people is their proof. It is a mark of John Daviess quality that he understood something of the complexity of cultural change in the early years of the Tahitian church

Dr Colin Newburys interest in Daviess History of the Tahitian Mission arose out of his own awareness of the final indivisibility of a countrys history. In 1953, as the first Ph.D. student in the Department of Pacific History of the Australian National University, he began a historical study of the administration of French Oceania. As he worked through the sources in Paris, London, Rome and Papeete, and in the Australian libraries, and as he observed Tahitian society at first hand, the picture which took shape in his mind became one which embraced much besides politics and adminis^ tration. As his supervisor at that stage, I was privileged to share something of the enthusiasm which this work aroused in him.

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