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Contents

1. Our Homes and Our Forbears
2. Parents and School Days
3. Leaving Home and Early Struggles
4. In the Glasgow Slums
5. Missionary to the Cannibals
6. First Impressions of Heathendom
7. Settlement and Sorrow of Tanna
8. Superstitions and Cruelties
9. The Visit of H.M.S. "Cordelia"
10. Under Axe and Musket
11. Cannibals at Work
12. The Plague of Measles
13. Deepening Shadows
14. The Var Chiefs in Council
15. THe Beginning of the End
16. A Race for Life
17. The Last Dread Night - But Saved!
18. To Australia For a Mission Ship
19. In Swamp and Saddle
20. To Scotland and Back
21. To the Islands and Fresh Difficulties
22. Starting of Aniwa
23. Revenge, Heathen Practices, and Hopeful Signs
24. Nelwand's Elopement, and Incidents
25. The Sinking of the Well
26. First Book, New Eyes, and a New Church
27. Chief Youwili Converted and the First Communion
28. The Finger-Posts of God
29. Death of Namakei and Other Chiefs
30. Litsi Sore, Mungaw, Nasi and Lamu
31. Round the World Again for a Ship
32. Back to Australia and the Islands
33. The Autobiography and a World Tour
34. A New "Dayspring." Death of Kanaka Traffic
35. Rev Frank Paton - Missionary to Tanna
36. Wreck of the "Dayspring"
37. Round the World Again - at 76
38. Back to the Islands Again, and Yet Again
39. The Passing of Mrs Paton
40. The Home Call

Appendix

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