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“...character of tropical diseases; they
were extremely poor, and their only salary was what they
were able to earn with the toil of their hands. When setting
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sail to their new destination, they could truly say: “Ave,
Domine, morituri te salutant.” Most of them found an un-
timely grave in the swamps of Guiana.
But where some fell, others carried on. Even when work
among the Negro slaves proved to be impossible, they re-
mained true to Guiana and went to Berbice, there to preach
the Gospel among the Red Indians. From there they pene-
trated deeper into the jungle, where they worked among the
Bush-negroes. Gradually, however, the conditions among the
Negro slaves became such that a new effort to bring them
the Christian faith could be ventured, and from that time
on the work of the Moravians made steady progress. They
did not stop at making conversion conquests, but did every-
thing to strengthen the positions, captured in the name of
the Christian faith, by social and cultural...”
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