FOLK-LORE
OF
WEST AND MID-WALES
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“Cared doeth yrencilion.”
ABERYSTWYTH:
PRINTED AT THE “WELSH GAZETTE” OFFICES, BRIDGE STREET.
1911.
ABERYSTWYTH:
PRINTED AT THE “WELSH GAZETTE” OFFICES, BRIDGE STREET.
1911.
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This book is respectfully dedicated bythe Author
to
COUNTESS OF LISBURNE, CROSSWOOD.
ALICE, COUNTESS AMHERST.
LADY ENID VAUGHAN.
LADY WEBLEY-PARRY-PRYSE, GOGERDDAN.
LADY HILLS-JOHNES OF DOLAUCOTHY.
MRS. HERBERT DAVIES-EVANS, HIGHMEAD.
MRS. WILLIAM BEAUCLERK POWELL, NANTEOS. [V]
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PREFACE
The writer ofthis book lived for many years in the Welsh Colony, Patagonia, where hewas the pioneer of the Anglican Church. He published a book dealingwith that part of the world, which also contained a great deal ofinteresting matter regarding the little known Patagonian Indians, Ideason Religion and Customs, etc. He returned to Wales in 1891; and afterspending a few years in his native land, went out to a wild part ofWestern Australia, and was the pioneer Christian worker in a districtcalled Colliefields, where he also built a church. (No one had everconducted Divine Service in that place before.)
Here again, he found time to write his experiences, andhis book contained a great deal of value to the Folklorist, regardingthe aborigines of that country, quite apart from the ordinary accountof Missionary enterprise, history and prospects of Western Australia,
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