Produced by Bryan Ness, Rose Mawhorter and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcription notes: p 170. Period added at the end of the first sentence. p xi. Period added after 1892 entry. Both bare-footed and barefooted were in text. This has been retained. Both bread-winner and breadwinner were in text. This has been retained. Both egg-shells and eggshell were in text. This has been retained. Both God-men and god-men were in text. This has been retained. Subtitution scheme for non-ascii characters: [:o] was used to indicate o with an umlaut diacritical mark ['E] was used to indicate E with an acute diacritical mark ['e] was used to indicate e with an acute diacritical mark [~n] was used to indicate n with a tilde diacritical mark [L] was used to indicated the British pound sign * * * * * 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