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devil in Queensland, Australia

YEAR
1861
PLACE
Queensland
SOURCE
Internet Archive
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devil in Queensland, Australia

ions of the Bechuanas, another African nation. " These beings," observes a writer in the " North British Keview," for November, 1845, on the authority of the missionaries, '^ had no ideas of anything beyond this world. Several, interrogated by the missionaries Schmelin, Campbell, and Moffitt, decla…

Record ID
1,764
Year
1,861
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
1764
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
Queensland, Australia; John Dunmore Lang
Published
1861
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
devil
Archive period
Gold Rush Colonial
Location
Queensland (QLD): B
State or territory
QLD
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ions of the Bechuanas, another African nation. " These beings," observes a writer in the " North British Keview," for November, 1845, on the authority of the missionaries, '^ had no ideas of anything beyond this world. Several, interrogated by the missionaries Schmelin, Campbell, and Moffitt, declared that they had no idea whatever of a God or devil, or any spirit, of a future state, or immortality of the soul ; and yet they had in general acute intellects and excellent memories." Nay, the Danish Govemmejit having had an exploratoiy ex- pedition, under the command of Captain Graah, an able and zealous naval officer of that.

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