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“Eromanga [Erromango] - View of Mission Premises, from the side where John Williams fell. Rev. Hugh and Mrs. Robertson are the present missionaries, 1890.” Exterior view of the mission complex from across a stretch of water, probably the Williams River, named after John Williams (1796-1839) who, along with his fellow missionary James Harris, was killed on the island of Eromanga during an attempt to bring them the Gospel. Hugh Robertson (1841-1914) and his wife Christina left Nova Scotia in 1872 to serve as Presbyterian missionaries for forty years on the island of Eromanga.
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