Wheeler, Daniel:

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EFFECTS OF THE INTRODUCTION OF ARDENT SPIRITS AND IMPLEMENTS OF WAR, AMONGST THE NATIVES OF SOME OF THE SOUTH-SEA ISLANDS AND NEW SOUTH WALES. Daniel Wheeler was a British Quaker minister who preached in and wrote about the Pacific Islands. This interesting treatise was extracted from Wheeler's letters and journals, which were also published in 1839, the year of his death. Wheeler made a trip to the Pacific in the 1830s, visiting Tasmania, New South Wales, Tahiti, and the Sandwich and Society Islands. This particular tract advocates temperance. Only a handful of copies of the first title are recorded in OCLC, primarily in Australian institutions.

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