Read then answer questions:

1. What challenges did missionaries face in the Pacific? Why was their work difficult?

2. Explain how the introduction of a Western goods and money by traders had an impact on islanders.

3. How did sailors (and others) end up as beachcombers (why did they come)? Give different examples.

4. Perhaps the worst contribution of whalers … *

a. trading with islands for provisions

b. hiring islanders as sailors

c. becoming a basis for island economies

d. spreading disease

5. Beachcombers did NOT … *

a. cause trouble on islands

b. act as go-betweens

c. drag rakes through the beach sand

d. sometimes stay permanently