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 ===== The Methodists in New Guinea =====
-{{:figure/map-1.pdf| Colonial New Guinea, circa 1890}}
+{{bng.png| Colonial New Guinea, circa 1890}}
 ===== Methodist Sabbatarianism =====
-> On Saturday evening we told the men and boys that to-morrow was Tapwaroro, and that we could not buy anything from them on the sacred day. […] We could not explain fully to this people about the obligation of the Sabbath, but we could tell them a little, and I always thing it best to commence straight off with making the day sacred. These natives are but children, it is true, but while we are not too strict with them, we ourselves refrain from everything that would cause the day to seem common. Then their minds are set inquiring by our declining to buy or do anything on one day. (Bromilow 1897, 8)
+On Saturday evening we told the men and boys that to-morrow was Tapwaroro, and that we could not buy anything from them on the sacred day. […] We could not explain fully to this people about the obligation of the Sabbath, but we could tell them a little, and I always thing it best to commence straight off with making the day sacred. These natives are but children, it is true, but while we are not too strict with them, we ourselves refrain from everything that would cause the day to seem common. Then their minds are set inquiring by our declining to buy or do anything on one day. (Bromilow 1897, 8)
 ===== Bwebweso or garewa =====
-> [I]n the course of his address, he asked the people if they had given up //bwebweso//, but an old woman answered “No! we want to go to //bwebweso//! we do not want to go to //garewa//!” Others joined in and Mr. Fellows had a lively time. (Bromilow 1893b, 6; see also Fellows 1891, Nov. 20, 1892)
+[I]n the course of his address, he asked the people if they had given up //bwebweso//, but an old woman answered “No! we want to go to //bwebweso//! we do not want to go to //garewa//!” Others joined in and Mr. Fellows had a lively time. (Bromilow 1893b, 6; see also Fellows 1891, Nov. 20, 1892)
   * Not only did people resist this choice, some also claimed to be able to entrance people and send them to Bwebweso as proof. Bwebweso is thus not merely a primitive custom. Codrington’s model is breaking down.
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 ===== The woman of Gaula =====
-> I was dead, and my spirit went up to heaven. I met Jesus there. He is so good! I am so bad! He told me to return and tell my people that //taparoro// is true. (Bromilow 1893c, 9).
+I was dead, and my spirit went up to heaven. I met Jesus there. He is so good! I am so bad! He told me to return and tell my people that //taparoro// is true. (Bromilow 1893c, 9).
 ===== Bromilow denounces Dobu custom =====
-> “Where are the people who have professed to believe in //taparoro//? I know there are many in this place who have said that //taparoro// is all lies! But where are those who have said //taparoro// is true that they allow this?”
+“Where are the people who have professed to believe in //taparoro//? I know there are many in this place who have said that //taparoro// is all lies! But where are those who have said //taparoro// is true that they allow this?”
-> “Oh! it is //taboo// for us to interfere,” said one, “we are of such a relationship that we dare not!”
+“Oh! it is //taboo// for us to interfere,” said one, “we are of such a relationship that we dare not!”
-> “Well,” I said, “//taboo// or no //taboo//, we must have this woman out of the grave. Do you want to disgrace yourselves in the eyes of good people by following out this custom in these times of light?
+“Well,” I said, “//taboo// or no //taboo//, we must have this woman out of the grave. Do you want to disgrace yourselves in the eyes of good people by following out this custom in these times of light?
-> “Oh, but,” said one, “this is our custom in this village, and it is //taboo// for us to lift her out! As you have come let her die in the grave till the breath is out of her.”
+“Oh, but,” said one, “this is our custom in this village, and it is //taboo// for us to lift her out! As you have come let her die in the grave till the breath is out of her.”
-> “//Taboo//,” I said, “then we will break your //taboo// to-day! Some of your //taboos// may be good, but this is a bad one, which I know nothing about. You are breaking God’s //taboo//, which is far worse. Come, lift the woman out!” (Bromilow 1893a, 7)
+“//Taboo//,” I said, “then we will break your //taboo// to-day! Some of your //taboos// may be good, but this is a bad one, which I know nothing about. You are breaking God’s //taboo//, which is far worse. Come, lift the woman out!” (Bromilow 1893a, 7)
-====== References ======
+===== References =====
 Barker, John. 1990. “Mission Station and Village: Religious Practice and Representations in Maisin Society.” In //Christianity in Oceania: Ethnographic Perspectives//, edited by John Barker, 173–96. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America.