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missionary station

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Noun1.missionary station - an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious workmissionary station - an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work
NGO, nongovernmental organization - an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government


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There he boards a boat, which ferries provisions from the provincial capital Luc to an inland Belgian missionary station where he disembarks, but only because that is the terminal point.
This collection of essays makes those connections, in diverse settings ranging from the centers of academic Europe to African missionary stations in Namibia.
Baker would likely have been viewed in the interior not only as an unwelcome missionary but also as an agent of an enemy tribe living closer to the coastline where the missionary stations were located.
 
 
 
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