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“Gable view of Mission House and Church – Kwamera, Tanna. Rev. W. Watt’s.” External view of clapboard house and adjoining church, surrounded by palm trees and a picket fence. The buildings appear to have metal sheet roofs. William Watt, a Theological student of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland, was appointed a missionary in 1866. Watt and his wife Agnes arrived on the Islands in 1868 and commenced work on Tanna. In 1880, he baptized two men and four women with five more in 1884. His wife died in 1894 and he stayed on Tanna until 1910. Her autobiographical Twenty-Five Years' Mission Life on Tanna, New Hebrides was published in Paisley, 1896.
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