CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
EARLIER DAYS.
PAGE
Introductory Note [3]
Kirkmahoe [4]
Torthorwald Village [5]
Our Villagers [6]
Nithsdale Scenes [7]
Our Cottage Home [9]
Our Forebears [12]
An Idyll of the Heart [16]
A Consecrated Father [19]
Accepted Vows [21]
Happy Sabbath Days [22]
Golden Autumn of Life [26]
CHAPTER II.
AT SCHOOL AND COLLEGE.
A Typical Scottish School [31]
An Unacknowledged Prize [32]
A Wayward Master [33]
Learning a Trade [33]
My Father’s Prayers [34]
“Jehovah Jireh” [34]
With Sappers and Miners [36]
The Harvest Field [38]
On the Road to Glasgow [39]
A Memorable Parting [40]
Before the Examiners [42]
Killing Work [43]
Deep Waters [44]
Maryhill School [45]
Rough School Scenes [46]
“Aut Cæsar Aut Nullus” [48]
My Wages [49]
CHAPTER III.
IN GLASGOW CITY MISSION.
“He Leadeth Me” [53]
A Degraded District [55]
The Gospel in a Hay-Loft [56]
New Mission Premises [58]
At Work for Jesus [59]
At War with Hell [62]
Sowing Gospel Seed [64]
Publicans on the War Path [65]
Marched to the Police Office [67]
Papists and Infidels [69]
An Infidel Saved [70]
An Infidel in Despair [71]
A Brand from the Burning [72]
A Saintly Child [75]
Papists in Arms [77]
Elder and Student [81]
CHAPTER IV.
FOREIGN MISSION CLAIMS.
The Wail of the Heathen [85]
A Missionary Wanted [85]
Two Souls on the Altar [87]
Lions in the Path [89]
The Old Folks at Home [92]
Successors in Green Street Mission [95]
Old Green Street Hands [97]
A Father in God [97]
CHAPTER V.
THE NEW HEBRIDES.
License and Ordination [101]
At Sea [102]
From Melbourne to Aneityum [102]
Settlement on Tanna [105]
Our Mission Stations [106]
Diplomatic Chiefs [107]
Painful First Impressions [108]
Bloody Scenes [109]
The Widow’s Doom [111]
CHAPTER VI.
LIFE AND DEATH ON TANNA.
Our Island Home [115]
Learning the Language [116]
A Religion of Fear [118]
With or Without a God [119]
Ideas of the Invisible [120]
Gods and Demons [121]
My Companion Missionary [122]
Pioneers in New Hebrides [123]
Missionaries of Aneityum [125]
The Lord’s Arrowroot [126]
Unhealthy Sites [127]
The Great Bereavement [129]
Memorial Tributes [131]
Selwyn and Patteson at a Tanna Grave [133]
Her Last Letter [134]
Last Words [137]
Presentiment and Mystery [138]
CHAPTER VII.
MISSION LEAVES FROM TANNA.
Tannese Natives [141]
“Tabooed” [142]
Jehovah’s Rain [143]
“Big Hays” [144]
War and Cannibalism [145]
The Lot of Woman [146]
Sacred Days [148]
Preaching in Villages [149]
Native Teachers [150]
The War Shell [151]
Deadly Superstitions [152]
A League of Blood [154]
Chiefs in Council [155]
Defence of Women [157]
A League of Peace [157]
Secret Disciples [159]
A Christo-Heathen Funeral [159]
Clever Thieves [160]
Ships of Fire [164]
H.M.S. Cordelia [166]
Captain Vernon and Miaki [167]
The Captain and the Chiefs [168]
The John Williams [169]
Evanescent Impressions [170]
A House on the Hill [171]
In Fever Grips [171]
“Noble Old Abraham” [172]
Critics in Easy Chairs [174]
CHAPTER VIII.
MORE MISSION LEAVES FROM TANNA.
The Blood-Fiend Unleashed [179]
In the Camp of the Enemy [180]
A Typical South Sea Trader [182]
Young Rarip’s Death [183]
The Trader’s Retribution [185]
Worship and War [186]
Saved from Strangling [187]
Wrath Restrained [188]
Under the Axe [191]
The Clubbing of Namuri [193]
A Native Saint and Martyr [195]
Bribes Refused [197]
Widows Rescued [197]
The Sinking of a Well [198]
Church-Building on Tanna [199]
Ancient Stone God [201]
Printing First Tannese Book [201]
A Christian Captain [203]
Levelled Muskets [204]
A French Refugee [205]
A Villainous Captain [208]
Like Master—Like Men [209]
Wrecked on Purpose [212]
The Kanaka Traffic [213]
A Heathen Festival [215]
Sacrifices to Idols [218]
Heathen Dance and Sham Fight [219]
Six Native Teachers [221]
A Homeric Episode [222]
Victims for Cannibal Feast [223]
The Jaws of Death [224]
Nahak or Sorcery [226]
Killing me by Nahak [227]
Nahak Defied [229]
Protected by Jehovah [230]
“Almost Persuaded” [231]
Escorted to the Battle-Field [232]
Praying for Enemies [233]
Our Canoe on the Reef [233]
A Perilous Pilgrimage [236]
Rocks and Waters [237]
CHAPTER IX.
DEEPENING SHADOWS.
Welcome Guests [243]
A Fiendish Deed [244]
The Plague of Measles [245]
A Heroic Soul [246]
Horrors of Epidemic [247]
A Memorable New Year [248]
A Missionary Attacked [249]
In the Valley of the Shadow [251]
Blow from an Adze [252]
A Missionary’s Death [253]
Mrs. Johnston’s Letter [255]
A Heavy Loss [256]
The Story of Kowia [256]
Kowia’s Soliloquy [258]
The Passing of Kowia [259]
Mortality of Measles [261]
Fuel to the Fire [262]
Hurricanes [262]
A Spate of Blood and Terror [263]
Nowar Vacillates [265]
The Anger of the Gods [265]
Not Afraid to Die [266]
Martyrs of Erromanga [267]
Visit to the Gordons [268]
Their Martyrdom [269]
Vindication of the Gordons [270]
Gordon’s Last Letter [272]
Plots of Murder [273]
Death by Nahak [275]
Nowar Halting Again [275]
Old Abraham’s Prayer [277]
Miaki and the Mission House [278]
Satanic Influences [280]
Perplexity Deepening [280]
Bishop Selwyn’s Testimony [281]
Rotten Tracts [283]
Captain and Mate of Blue Bell [285]
My Precious Dog [287]
Fishing Nets and Kawases [288]
The Taro Plant [290]
The Kava Drink [290]
Katasian and the Club Scene [291]
The Yams [292]
Sunshine and Shadow [292]
Teachers Demoralized [293]
The Chief’s Alphabet [294]
Our Evil Genius [295]
Ships of Fire Again [295]
Commodore Seymour’s Visit [296]
Nouka and Queen ’Toria [297]
The Dog to his Vomit Again [298]
CHAPTER X.
FAREWELL SCENES.
The War Fever [303]
Forced to the War Council [305]
A Truce Among the Chiefs [306]
Chiefs and People [308]
The Kiss of Judas [309]
The Death of Ian [309]
The Quivering Knife [310]
A War of Revenge [312]
In the Thick of the Battle [313]
Tender Mercies of the Wicked [315]
Escape for Life [316]
The Loss of All [317]
Under the Tomahawk [318]
Jehovah is Hearing [318]
The Host Turned Back [320]
The War Against Manuman [320]
Traps Laid [321]
House Broken Up [322]
War Against Our Friends [322]
A Treacherous Murderer [323]
On the Chestnut Tree [324]
Bargaining for Life [325]
Five Hours in a Canoe [328]
Kneeling on the Sands [329]
Faimungo’s Farewell [330]
“Follow! Follow!” [331]
A Race for Life [332]
Ringed Round with Death [334]
Faint yet Pursuing [336]
Out of the Lion’s Jaws [337]
Brothers in Distress [339]
Intervening Events [341]
A Cannibal’s Taste [341]
Pillars of Cloud and Fire [342]
Passing by on the Other Side [344]
Kapuku and the Idol Gods [344]
A Devil Chief [344]
“In Perils Oft” [345]
Through Fire and Water [345]
“Sail O! Sail O!” [349]
“Let Me Die” [350]
In Perils on the Sea [351]
Tannese Visitors [352]
The Devil Chief Again [353]
Speckled and Spotted [354]
Their Desired Haven [355]
“I am Left Alone” [355]
My Earthly All [356]
Eternal Hope [356]
Australia to the Rescue [357]
For My Brethren’s Sake [358]
A New Holy League [358]
The Uses of Adversity [359]
Arm-chair Critics Again [360]
Concluding Note [361]
Prospectus of Part Second [362]
APPENDIX.
A. The Prayer of the Chiefs of Tanna [367]
B. Notes on the New Hebrides [371]