Author: KAAL, H.,
Title: Jong Batakbloed. [Tweede druk; Second edition].
Description: Delft, Meinema, [circa], 1939. Small 8°, orig. coloured and illustrated boards drawn by Menno Van Meeteren Brouwer, bold type coveritle. 91pp., frontispiece, some monochrome illustrations of which full page after drawings by MENNO VAN MEETEREN BROUWER, 2 full page sketch-maps, North Sumatra with on verso a map of Lake Toba, some indonesian words explained at tail margin of final page. BUUR, PD 1364 (Brinkman first edn. 1938). Dutch language youth story in wich the conversion to christianity of a Toba-Batak boy is described, which includes a 2pp. supplementary note by author in which the Batak mission field is characterrized as the most peculiar of the world, with a further note on the first two british missionaries to visit the Batak, Burton and Ward. Very fine copy.

Keywords: mission missionary christianization labour toba batak labour story juvenile conversion history sumatra colonialism indonesia southeastasia