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Group on verandah, Panama, ca. 1910

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"Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, Lion Hill.Cottage where we lunched and rested. Persons from left to right:- 1) Class leader 2) Mine Hostess, who provided a good lunch 3) Rev. W.J. Jacobs, second minister in Panama - Colon Circuit 4)The Chairman of the District, the Rev W.J. Williams."The earliest Wesleyan mission began in the West Indies when, in 1786, Thomas Coke, destined for Nova Scotia, was driven off course by a storm and landed at Antigua in the British West Indies. There he developed a successful mission of both slaves and landowners. Within a few years almost every colony in the West Indies had been reached.
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Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United KingdomTrustees for Methodist Church PurposesUniversity of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Librarydocenquiry@soas.ac.ukhttp://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
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  1. Group Portraits
  2. Jacobs, Walter John, 1865?
  3. Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society

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