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The Samoan Journals of John Williams This book was published by ANU Press between 1965–1991. This republication is part of the digitisation project being carried out by Scholarly Information Services/Library and ANU Press. This project aims to make past scholarly works published by The Australian National University available to a global audience under its open-access policy. Rev. John Williams (George Baxter print, 1843. Courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Sydney) Pacific History Series No. 11 The Samoan Journals of John Williams 1830 and 1832 Edited, with an Introduction by Richard M. Moyle Australian National University Press Canberra, London, New York 1984 First published in Australia 1984 Printed in Australia for the Australian National University Press, Canberra © Introduction and Annotations Richard M. Moyle 1984 This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealings for the purpose of study, research, criticism, or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Williams, John, 1796-1839. The Samoan journals of John Williams, 1830 and 1832. ISBN 0 7081 1621 3. I. Samoa - Description and travel. I. Moyle, Richard M. (Richard Michael). II. Title. (Series: Pacific history series; no. 11). 919.61304 Library of Congress No. 83-7269 United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East, and Africa: Eurospan 3 Henrietta St, London WC2E 8LU, England North America: Australian National University Press, PO Box 1365 New York, NY 10023 Japan: United Publishers Services Ltd, Tokyo Southeast Asia: Information Publications Pte Ltd, 24 New Industrial Road, Singapore 1953 PRINTED IN AUSTRALIA BY MACARTHUR PRESS PTY LTD, PARRAMATTA The Pacific History Series The Pacific History 1 A Cruize in a Queensland Labour Vessel to the Series of books South Seas, by W.E. Giles, edited by Deryck Scarr (1968) provides an outlet 2 The Works of Ta’unga. Records of a Polynesian for the publication Traveller in the South Seas, 1833-1896, by R.G. and of original manuscripts Marjorie Crocombe (1968) important to historians 3 The Trading Voyages of Andrew Cheyne, 1841-1844, and others interested edited by Dorothy Shineberg (1971) in the Pacific Islands. 4 A Residence of Eleven Years in New Holland the the Caroline Islands, by James F. O’Connell, edited by Saul H. Riesenberg (1972) 5 The South Sea Islanders and the Queensland Labour Trade, by W.T. Wawn, edited by Peter Corris (1973). 6 The Marquesan Journal of Edward Robarts, 1797- 1824, edited by Greg Dening (1974) 7 The New Guinea Memoirs of Jean Baptiste Octave Mouton, edited by Peter Biskup (1974) 8 The Book of Luelen, by Luelen Bernart, translated and edited by John L. Fischer, Saul Fl. Riesenberg and Marjorie G. Witing (1977) 9 Annotations to The Book of Luelen, translated and edited by John L. Fischer, Saul H. Riesenberg and Marjorie G. Whiting (1977) 10 The Diaries and Correspondence of David Cargill, 1832-1843, edited by Albert J. Schutz (1977) VI Acknowledgments I would like to record the patient assistance of Colin Cummins throughout the preparation of this book, particularly with the transcription of William’s journals. Niel Gunson and Bob Langdon kindly gave editorial and reference suggestions. Much of the labour involved burning the midnight oil. I would like to thank my wife Linden for providing the oil. CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 The 1830 Journal 21 The 1832 Journal 93 Bibliography 287 Index 295 MAPS 1 Central Polynesia 2 Tonga 46 3 Samoa 66 Introduction The 1830 and 1832 journals of John Williams provide the earliest detailed accounts of Samoa when European influence was still in its infancy. Their wealth of ethnographic material has long been recognised by Pacific scholars, although the manuscripts may also be read as fascinating and often dramatic narratives in their own right. They are published here for the first time. In the first decade of the nineteenth century, England was still feeling the effects of an evangelical revival which commenced in the first half of the eighteenth century. Amid the turmoil of the French Revolution across the Channel, the military successes of Bonaparte throughout Europe, and local social and political struggles (which were to result in the Reform Bill of 1832), virtually every nonconformist denomination in Britain heard and heeded the missionary call. The initiative taken by the Wesleyan Thomas Coke, who began mission work in India in 1786, and by the Baptists William Carey and John Thomas, who began mission work in India in 1793, was soon taken up by other churches. The Biblical exhortation ‘Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature’ seized the imagination and consciences of evangelical clergymen, nonconformist ministers and a variety of interested laymen to the extent that in 1794 the first formal meeting occurred in London to consider the practicability of establishing a new missionary society. On 22 September 1795, after further meetings, this surge of interest culminated in the formation of the nondenominational Missionary Society (known from 1818 as the London Missionary Society (hereinafter LMS), from its subtitle, to distinguish it from similar Societies, such as the 1

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