[Guadeloupe, Saint Vincent, 'Cluett' Voyage] 1915-1916
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with other nations. The church (54) at Upernik is now housed in a new building and is fully equipped with alter, high pulpit, reading stand, baptismal font, melodion and bell, and can accommodate an au- dience of eighty. School is held in a room occupying the ground floor of a house near the church and has accommodations for about thirty pupils. The pastor and his wife are the teachers. Manual training in the working of bone, ivory and wood and in sewing forms an important part of the simple cur- riculum, which otherwise com- prises reading, writing, simple arithmetic, geography and singing. The pastor and his wife are the teachers and the school year lasts the usual nine months. [Photos] The