Missionaries' Long Trek
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Prom Our Own Correspondent.
Port Moresby, July 6.
FATHERS Grammand and Wendley, of the Sacred Heart Mission, re cently arrived in Port Moresby and are the guests of Father McEncroe at the Roman Catholic Presbytery. The two Fathers walked overland, starting from Fane, in the Ononge District, the most remote mission station in the mountains of the Central Division, far inland from Yule Island.
The country through which they tra velled is extremely broken and their route took them over ranges which tower one above the other and across torrents which wind tortuously in and out of precipitous ravines. Reaching Douramoku in the Kanosia district, the two Fathers picked up Father Flynn, and reached Bomana, near Port Moresby, after a seven days’ trek covering over 200 miles.
After a few days in Port Moresby, Fathers Grammand and Wendley will return to Ononge again on foot, but it is understood they are taking a more northerly route from the Laloki. This journey could be covered under two hours by air, but the flight offers little attraction to the Mission Fathers, who find that they maintain closer contact with the people of the hills by the old fashioned method of visiting them on foot.