Singerman ID#supp1401

Missions in the Tonga and Feejee Islands, as described in the Journals of Rev. Walter Lawry. Revised by Daniel P. Kidder.

Singerman Entry

Singerman ID#supp1401

Lawry, Walter. Missions in the Tonga and Feejee Islands, as described in the Journals of Rev. Walter Lawry. Revised by Daniel P. Kidder. New-York: Lane & Scott, for the Sunday-School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1852. 499 p.

Notes

Lawry reflects on the whereabouts of the Ten Tribes and a possibility of survivals of ancient Jewish customs among the Pacific Islanders: "These people are Oriental, as most men think, but they seem to have descended from different branches of Noah’s family; and the difficulty of accounting for the Negro race mixed up with the Asiatic, and Jewish rites with pagan customs, has been the puzzle in this inquiry" (p. 252).