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Most of the written evidence of our history is kept by the governments, armies, missions and museums that dealt with us, and almost none of it in the highlands. This is where it is: what each place holds, how to reach it, and which of its documents we have already copied into our own library. Much of it can be searched online, and many of the do...
The Kon Tum mission, 1851
In the last weeks of 1850 a French priest of twenty-five, guided in by a Vietnamese deacon, reached the Bahnar villages of the Kon Tum basin. The mission that followed produced the first written form of any of our languages, the first dictionary, the first school, and the first outside description of who lived in the highlands and where. It is t...
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