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  The Story of Mary Slessor

  THE WHITE QUEEN
  of
  OKOYONG

  [Illustration: THE CANOE WAS ATTACKED BY A HUGE HIPPOPOTAMUS]

  THE STORY OF MARY SLESSOR
  FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

  THE WHITE QUEEN
  OF OKOYONG

  A TRUE STORY OF ADVENTURE
  HEROISM AND FAITH

  BY
  W. P. LIVINGSTONE

  AUTHOR OF "MARY SLESSOR OF CALABAR"

  ILLUSTRATED

  NEW YORK
  GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

  COPYRIGHT, 1917,
  BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

  PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


             TO
      ALL GIRLS AND BOYS
           WHO ARE
        LOOKING FORWARD
             AND
        DREAMING DREAMS




  "She left all and followed Him."




  CONTENTS


                                                               PAGE
  CHIEF DATES IN MISS SLESSOR'S LIFE                            xi


  CHAPTER I

  Tells how a little girl lived in a lowly home, and played,
  and dreamed dreams, and how a dark shadow came into her
  life and made her unhappy; how when she grew older she
  went into a factory and learned to weave, and how in her
  spare minutes she taught herself many things, and worked
  amongst wild boys; and how she was sent to Africa              1


  CHAPTER II

  How our heroine sailed away to a golden land of sunshine
  across the sea; how she found that under all the beauty there
  were terrible things which made life a misery to the
  dark-skinned natives; how she began to fight their evil ideas
  and ways and to rescue little children from death; how,
  after losing all her loved ones, she took a little twin-girl
  to her heart, and how she grew strong and calm and brave      22


  CHAPTER III

  Ma's great adventure: how she went up-river by herself in a
  canoe and lived in a forest amongst a savage tribe; how
  she fought their terrible customs and saved many lives;
  how she built a hut for herself and then a church, and how
  she took a band of the wild warriors down to the coast
  and got them to be friends with the people who had
  always been their sworn enemies                               45


  CHAPTER IV

  Stories of how Ma kept an armed mob at bay and saved the
  lives of a number of men and women; how in answer to a
  secret warning she tramped a long distance in the dark to
  stop a war; how she slept by a camp-fire in the heart of
  the forest, and how she became a British Consul and
  ruled Okoyong like a Queen                                    69


  CHAPTER V

  Ma's great love for children; her rescue of outcast twins
  from death; the story of little Susie, the pet of the
  household; and something about a new kind of birthday that
  came oftener than once a year                                 90


  CHAPTER VI

  How the Queen of Okoyong brought a high British official to
  talk to the people; how she left her nice home and went
  to live in a little shed; how she buried a chief at midnight;
  how she took four black girls to Scotland, and afterwards
  spent three very lonely years in the forest                  105


  CHAPTER VII

  Tells of a country of mystery and a clever tribe who were
  slave-hunters and cannibals, and how they were fought
  and defeated by Government soldiers; how Ma went
  amongst them, sailing through fairyland, and how she
  began to bring them to the feet of Jesus                     120


  CHAPTER VIII

  Ma learns to ride a bicycle and goes pioneering; the Government
  makes her a Judge again and she rules the people;
  stories of the Court, and of her last visit to Scotland with
  a black boy as maid-of-all-work; and something about a
  beautiful dream which she dreamed when she returned,
  and a cow and a yellow cat                                   140


  CHAPTER IX

  Ma goes farther up the Creek and settles in a heathen town in
  the wilds; she enters into happy friendships with young
  people in Scotland; has a holiday in a beautiful island,
  where she makes a secret compact with a lame boy; and
  is given a Royal Cross for the heroic work she has done      163


  CHAPTER X

  This chapter tells how Ma became a gypsy again and lived on
  a hill-top, and how after a hard fight she won a new region
  for Jesus; gives some notes from her diary and letters to
  little friends at home, and pictures her amongst her
  treasures                                                    183


  CHAPTER XI

  What happened when the Great War broke out. Ma's last
  voyage down the Creek; how her life-long dream came
  true                                                         198


  INDEX                                                        207




    My life, my all, Lord, I entreat,
      Take, and use, and make replete
    With the love and patience sweet
      That made _Thy_ life so complete.
                           MARY SLESSOR.




  CHIEF DATES IN MISS SLESSOR'S LIFE

  YEAR                                                         AGE

  1848. Born at Gilcomston, Aberdeen, December 2.

  1856. Family went to Dundee.                                   8

  1859. Began work in a factory.                                11

