C. (Charles) Bice

Best known for Journal of Residence in the New Hebrides, S.W. Pacific Ocean, Charles Bice wrote from direct experience rather than from a distance. The book was published with Arthur Brittain's journal and presents their time working with the Melanesian Mission in what is now Vanuatu.

Contemporary church and mission records show that he served for many years with the Melanesian Mission and was ordained priest on Norfolk Island in 1871. Later records describe him as the Mission's organising secretary in Australia, and by 1892 he was noted as retiring after nearly 25 years of service.

That background helps explain the tone of his writing: practical, observant, and closely tied to missionary travel, island communities, and everyday work in the South Pacific. For listeners interested in exploration, colonial-era travel writing, or mission history, his journal is valuable as a firsthand historical document.