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John Williams of the South Seas
Classic Biography Series
By : James J. Ellis
John Williams was born in Tottenham in 1796. He was apprenticed to an ironmonger at the age of fourteen. In 1816 he set sail with his wife Mary for Tahitt in the South Pacific.
He built his own boat which he named the ‘Messenger of Peace’ and discovered the island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands in 1832. It was here that he began translating the Bible. During the greater part of his lifetime, John Williams served God in comparative obscurity among the South Sea Islands.
While in the New Hebrides, which were inhabited by cannibals, he visited the island of Erromango in November 1839 and was clubbed to death.
ISBN-13: 9781909803749
Publisher: John Ritchie Ltd (2014)
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Author: Ellis, James
