John Williams (1796-1839) was a missionary, born in London, England. In 1817, he voyaged to the Society Islands[?], and remained in the South Seas until 1834, when he returned to Britain to supervise the printing of his translation of the New Testament into the Raratongan language. In 1838, he travelled to the New Hebrides, and in the course of his voyage was killed and eaten by cannibals on the island of Erromango[?].
All Wikipedia text
is available under the
terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
Search Encyclopedia
Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
... and this is seen by some as influential (to a certain limited extent) in promoting the take-up of digital television.
BBC News 24 broadcasts from the BBC News Centre in ...