Excerpt from A Dictionary of the Aneityumese Language<br/><br/>Utility, not literary distinction, was my aim in preparing this Dictionary. My object was to have all the words in the language at my command while engaged in translating a part, and editing the whole, of the Aneityumese Bible.
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