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Josua Mateinaniu

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71:, and containing about one thousand inhabitants. He accompanied Vuki, a Tonga Chief, to the Tonga isles, in order to teach the Tonguese (Tongans) a Feejeean dance and song, called wesi. He never accomplished his design; and he has frequently expressed his gratitude that, instead of being permitted to teach the Tonguese a foolish and useless dance and song, the Missionaries were instrumental in teaching him to sing the songs of Zion. After his conversion he was employed as a local preacher, and accompanied Messrs. Cross and Cargill to Feejee, to aid them in publishing the glad tidings of salvation among his ignorant and perishing countrymen. He is a man of few words, and great meekness. He is a willing labourer, and is faithful and zealous in the discharge of his duty. He has been honoured by God as an instrument of good, as a subordinate agent of the Mission in Feejee. He was sent as a Missionary to the Tonguese who were sojourning with Tanoa at Thakaundrove. 129: 182: 79:
regularly, long before it was really opened to white missionaries. At the time of Hunt's death, he was stationed at Viwa; he and his wife personally cared for Hunt's family during the long weeks of that final illness.
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in their linguistic preparations for the mission to Fiji. He became a preacher and came back to his own land with Cross and Cargill, and was himself a most important factor in the missionary impact made on
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Memoirs of Mrs Margaret Cargill : wife of the Rev. David Cargill, A.M., Wesleyan missionary, including notices of the progress of Christianity in Tonga and Feejee / by her husband
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John Garrett,“To Live Among the Stars”, Institute of Pacific Studies, 1985 (book reviewed in the Journal of Pacific History, Sept, 1998, by Roderic Lacey)
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Joshua Mateinaniu, the person mentioned in the preceding paragraph, is a Feejeean (Fijian), and is related to the principal family in
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BALEIWAQA, Tevita, 1996, ‘Josua Mateinaniu/Ko Josua Mateinaniu’, in Thornley and Vulaono 1996:20–30.
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Of Mateinaniu, Cargill wrote the following in his wife, Margaret's memoirs:
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from the start. He went ahead of the first missionaries to
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This article about a member of the Christian clergy is a
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Methodist Church of Fiji and Rotuma
Tonga
David Cargill
Lakeba
Somosomo
Tui Cakau
Hunt
Vulanga
Lakemba
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Lelean Memorial School
Davuilevu
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