Excerpt from The Romance of Missionary Heroism: True Stories of the Intrepid Bravery, and Stirring Adventures of Missionaries With Uncivilized Man, Wild Beasts and the Forces of Nature in All Parts of the World
The author desires with much gratitude to acknowledge his debt to the following ladies and gentlemen, who have most kindly assisted him in gathering the materials for this book by giving their consent to his use of their writings, by lending him books and photographs, or in other ways: -
Miss Constance F. Gordon Cumming; the Rev. George Robson, D.D., Editor of the "Missionary Record of the United Free Church of Scotland"; the Rev. James Paton, D.D.; Mr. Fred S. Amot, founder of the Garenganze Mission; the Picpus Fathers of the Damien Institute, Eccleshall; the Rev. E. P. Cachemaille, M.A., and Captain E. Poulden, R.N., the Secretaries of the South American Missionary Society; the Rev. J. W. Jack, M.A.; the Rev. W. MacNanghtan, M.A., of the Presbyterian Mission in Liao-Yang; Miss M. G. Cowan, Hon. Librarian of the Missionary Library at Lady Stair's House, Edinburgh; Mr. John Cochrane, of the Publications Office of the United Free Church; Mrs. D. R. MacKenzie, of the Livingstonia Mission, Lake Nyasa; Mr. R. K. Westwater.
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