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Excerpt from A Thousand Miles in a Dug-Out: Being the Narrative of a Journey of Investigation Among the Red-Skin Indians of Central Brazil
For some years it has been the prayerful desire of this Mission that some steps may soon be taken to carry the Gospel of the Kingdom to the redskins of the Araguaya river, and first to the tribe known as the Carajas for the city of Goyaz forms an excellent base from which to reach these people.
A preliminary journey of exploration was resolved upon with the View Of Obtaining information about these Indians - their numbers, their location, and their probable attitude towards any attempt to establish an evangelising work among them, and this was the motive Of the journey related in the following narra tive.
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