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“Graves of martyred, Mr & Mrs Gordon to left, and Mr McNair (died of fever to). A stone now marks the grave of Gordons.” George N. Gordon (1822-1861) was a Presbyterian Canadian missionary who arrived on the coast of Eromanga in 1857. In 1861 sandalwood traders intentionally exposed the natives to measles. Two children of one of the island's chiefs had died in Gordon’s care. Blaming him for their deaths, the chief and a group of warriors killed both George and his wife, Ellen, in 1861. The Reverend James McNair died at Dillon’s Bay, 1870.
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