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Extracts from the letters and journal of Daniel Wheeler, while engaged in a religious visit to the inhabitants of some of the islands of the Pacific Ocean, Van Diemen's land, New South Wales, and New Zealand
Extracts from the letters and journal of Daniel Wheeler, while engaged in a religious visit to the inhabitants of some of the islands of the Pacific Ocean, Van Diemen's land, New South Wales, and New Zealand

Extracts from the letters and journal of Daniel Wheeler, while engaged in a religious visit to the inhabitants of some of the islands of the Pacific Ocean, Van Diemen's land, New South Wales, and New Zealand

Author
Date1840
Object number00027907
NameBook
MediumInk on paper, cloth covered boards
DimensionsOverall: 235 x 147 x 28 mm, 0.6 kg
Display Dimensions: 234 x 147 x 26 mm
ClassificationsBooks and journals
Credit LineANMM Collection
DescriptionExtracts from the letters and journal of Daniel Wheeler, while engaged in a religious visit to the inhabitants of some of the islands of the Pacific Ocean, Van Diemen's land, New South Wales, and New Zealand, accompanied by his son, Charles Wheeler'. Philadelphia, United States of America. A quaker missionary account of a voyage on board the missionary ship HENRY FEELING.HistoryWith the colonisation of Australia and the Pacific in the 1800's by Europeans, the local native inhabitants were subject to a number of abuses including slavery and repression of their way of life. Following closely on the heals of the soldiers, convicts and settlers came preachers of the cross who attempted to convert the population. Many missionary society's attempted to take their message and their protection to the most remote parts of the Pacific by chartering ships. In 1840 Daniel Wheeler and his son Charles Wheeler left London on board the missionary ship HENRY FEELING to travel through the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand.