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“Efate [Éfaté] (or Sandwich Island) - Part of the native congregation, in front of the Mission Church, with Mr. MacKenzie, the missionary, in the centre.” Group portrait of John William MacKenzie in the centre of 14 other worshippers. Two of these may not be indigenous. They are all seated in front of the thatched mission church. John William MacKenzie of Nova Scotia, and his wife, Amanda, came to the New Hebrides [Vanuatu] in 1872. In 1893, a ship, the Empreza, came through the islands bringing viral dysentery which had devastating effects on the local populations. Amanda MacKenzie, became ill and died in 1893. He remained in Vanuatu and married a second time. MacKenzie was a missionary in Vanuatu from 1872 to 1912 and died after retiring to Australia in 1914. Captain James Cook named Éfaté after the patron of his voyage, Lord Sandwich, but the indigenous named eventually prevailed.
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