Letters on the Nicobar islands, their natural productions, and the manners, customs, and superstitions of the natives; with an account of an attempt made by the Church of the United Brethren, to convert them to Christianity / Addressed by the Rev. John Gottfried Haensel ... to [and edited by] the Rev. C.I. Latrobe.

  • Haensel, Johann Gottfried.
Date:
1812
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Credit: Letters on the Nicobar islands, their natural productions, and the manners, customs, and superstitions of the natives; with an account of an attempt made by the Church of the United Brethren, to convert them to Christianity / Addressed by the Rev. John Gottfried Haensel ... to [and edited by] the Rev. C.I. Latrobe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the name of Frederic’s Islands was given to them; but the first attempt miscar¬ ried, and almost all the colonists sent thither from Tranquebar, soon died. The Brethren, however, were not discouraged. After some negociation with the Da¬ nish Asiatic company, having obtained an edict, granting them necessary privi¬ leges to preach the gospel to the heathen, and to maintain their own church-disci¬ pline and worship, they agreed to be¬ gin the work, and several Brethren of¬ fered themselves for this service. The names of the first missionaries were George John Stahl man, Adam Gottlieb Voelcker, and Christopher Butler, They arrived July 2, 1760, at Tranquebar, and were received by the Governor and all the in¬ habitants, with much cordiality. As an establishment on the coast of Coromandel, was found indispensably ne-