Missionary Heroes in Asia - True stories of the intrepid Bravery and Stirring adventures of Missionaries with uncivilized man wild beasts and the forces of nature

Such are the expedition of Hans Egede to Greenland the lonely journeys of David Brainerd among the Indian tribes of the North American forests the voyage of John Williams from one coral island of the Pacific to another in the little ship which his own hands had built the exploration of the Dark Continent by David Livingstone in the hope of emancipating the black man's soul. [...] Those who are familiar with his fascinating Jungle Books will remembei the story of The King's Ankus " and the weird figure of the little Gond hunter who shot the villager with his feathered arrow for the sake of the jewelled ankus and afterwards was found by Mowgli and Bagheera lying in the forest beaten to death with bamboo rods by a band of thieves who lusted after the same fatal prize. [...] The country of the Telugus stretches nortwards from Madras for some five hundred miles along the shores of the Bay of Bengal while 45The Country of the Telugus to the west it extends about half-way across the peninsula and so includes large parts not only of the Presidency of Madras but of the kingdom of Mysore and the dominions of the Nizam of Hyderabad. [...] He is the author of two books The Cobra's Den and In the Tiger Jungle which give graphic sketches of his experiences in city and village and jungle on horseback and in bullock-cart in the surgery with operating knife in hand and at the busy fair when a 46The Country of the Telugus crowd has gathered round and the knife that cures the body has been exchanged for the Book that saves the soul. [...] The special task was assigned to him of drawing up a paper on The Universal Education of Japan." He discharged the duty with such ability that his essay became the basis of the report susequently made by the embassy on the subject of education.