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Quotation from Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life by Herman Melville
“four or five Marquesan Islanders sent to the United States as Missionaries might be quite as useful as an equal number of Americans despatched to the Islands in a similar capacity.”
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, Chapter XVII (Project Gutenberg #1900)
An ironic reflection on missions.
Citation: "four or five Marquesan Islanders sent to the United States as Missionaries might be quite as useful as an equal number of Americans despatched to the Islands in a similar capacity." — Herman Melville, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, Chapter XVII (Project Gutenberg #1900). (id melville-typee-q2)
