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Title: "God first" : or, Hester Needham's work in Sumatra : her letters and diaries
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Needham, Hester
Subjects: Needham, Hester Missions
Publisher: (London) : The Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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there w^as Sunday school and anotherservice, and we gave the children fruit, and then wentto the Meerwaldts, as they had a Christmas tree, withpresents for their three children and for the students.Finally, here, after supper, the students all came, andMr. Johannsen gave them each a pocket-handkerchief,comb, or something equivalent. The next morning there was church service, and I thinka good many more than three hundred people must havebeen present. There are some palm-wine palms in this garden; andone day I saw the man who attends to them climb up withan empty bamboo vessel, and bring down a full one. Thesap runs out of a slit that is cut, and when it is a littleboiled it makes treacle, which we have every day forbreakfast and supper; a little more boiling makes it intotoffy, which we dont want; a little more still makes itinto coarse brown sugar, which we dont use ourselves, butthe natives use. Without any boiling they drink it aspalm wine, and I have tasted it, but do not like it.
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1. The most usual svay. 2. When one arm is cold. 3. To carry the baby. 4. As an only garment. As an umbrella on a windy day.In cold weather.Dropped while writing. 8. Flung over one arm. FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF COUNTRY AND PEOPLE 39 There are two hedges of lovely pink roses in this gardenwhich flower all the year round; and French beans, whichare sown every fortnight, so that we can have them all theyear round; and there are a few carrots, and potatoes andspinach, and any amount of a very nice kind of cucumber;and coffee they have too, and lemons and oranges—onlyit is not hot enough, or something or other goes wrongwhich makes them not ripen well. And there is a cocoa-nut palm, but it is not hot enough for it to bring forthcocoa-nuts. Some of the little boys who come to church carrytheir clothes over their arm for convenience sake; otherstwist them round their necks ; others leave their clothes athome ; while others wear little caps, jackets and trousers,and probably a saron besides. Me

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