Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 63818-h.htm or 63818-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/63818/63818-h/63818-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/63818/63818-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/halfcenturyamong00mcgi Transcriber’s note: Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). Text that was in bold face is enclosed by equal signs (=bold=). A HALF CENTURY AMONG THE SIAMESE AND THE LĀO [Illustration: Daniel McGilvary] A HALF CENTURY AMONG THE SIAMESE AND THE LĀO An Autobiography By DANIEL McGILVARY, D.D. With an Appreciation by Arthur J. Brown, D.D. Illustrated [Illustration] New York Chicago Toronto Fleming H. Revell Company London and Edinburgh Copyright, 1912, by Fleming H. Revell Company New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 125 N. Wabash Ave. Toronto: 25 Richmond St., W. London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO MY WIFE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AN APPRECIATION Missionary biography is one of the most interesting and instructive of studies. It is, however, a department of missionary literature to which Americans have not made proportionate contribution. The foreign missionary Societies of the United States now represent more missionaries and a larger expenditure than the European Societies, but most of the great missionary biographies are of British and Continental missionaries, so that many Americans do not realize that there are men connected with their own Societies whose lives have been characterized by eminent devotion and large achievement.