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by white settlers. Not wanting to upset the delicate situation and cause any reprisal attacks, the authorities attempted to hush up the affair. Fellow minister and evangelical reformer
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One Hundred Years of the Lutheran Church in Queensland
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158:Zion's Hill Mission
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111:Greenock, Scotland
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449:Background
350:2007-01-29
246:References
200:strychnine
168:Queensland
62:Early life
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40:missionary
320:cite book
72:Pomerania
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