(Cargill), Schutz, Albert J. (ed.)

The Diaries and Correspondence of David Cargill, 1832-1843

Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1977. 8vo, cloth boards, dustwrapper, maps, references, index, pp. (xvi) 256. Spine of dustwrapper slightly sunned, text clean, binding firm, very good condn.

Pacific History Series No. 10. The diaries and correspondence of David Cargill, Wesleyan missionary in the Pacific. He devised for the Fijian language an alphabet on lingistic principles ahead of their time, but subsequently led a tragic life. Item #86988

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