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Dictionaries

  • AU PMB MS 59
  • Collection
  • c.1900-1915

Dictionaries produced by the Roman Catholic Mission New Hebrides (now Vanuatu):

  1. Dictionary of the language of South-West Bay, Malekula, by Father Pierre Chauvel, S.M. (French-South West Bay).
  2. Dictionary of the language of Vao, Malekula, by Father Casimir Salomon, S.M. (Vao-French).
  3. Dictionary of the language of Olal, Ambrym (French-Olal).
  4. Dictionary of the language of Talomako, Big Bay, Espiritu Santo (Talomako-French).
  5. Dictionary of the Talomako language of Big Bay, Espiritu Santo, by Father Alphonse Ardouin, S.M., (French-Talomako).

Roman Catholic Mission, New Hebrides

Diary

  • AU PMB MS 1
  • Collection
  • 1 January - 31 December 1905

Maurice M. Witts, (1877-1966) an Australian who fought in the Boer War, went to the New Hebrides as a settler in 1904 after a brief sojourn in Fiji. With two cousins, Theo and Arthur Thomas, he planted coconuts in the Hog Harbour area of Espiritu Santo. He returned to Australia about 1913 and lived in the Moss Vale district until his death.

The diary gives an account of the life of a copra planter in a remote part of the New Hebrides, and contains numerous observations on the natives of the Hog Harbour area. See also PMB 8 for a later diary by Witts for the year 1911.

Witts, Maurice M.

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