mission station
(Australia, New Zealand) A reserve or other tract of land administered by religious missionaries for the spiritual and material welfare of Aboriginal people.
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(Australia, New Zealand) A reserve or other tract of land administered by religious missionaries for the spiritual and material welfare of Aboriginal people.
Stockbridge lay in the direct route, and it was constantly feared that the French and Indians would be down from the north, and sweep the little mission station before them; but the tide divided, and passed to the east and west of us, th…
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