"The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa" by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Mary Esther Miller MacGregor. The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa
The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa
Table of Contents
THE BLACK BEARDED BARBARIAN
CHAPTER I. SPLITTING ROCKS
CHAPTER II. A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
CHAPTER III. RECONNOITERING THE TERRITORY
CHAPTER IV. BEGINNING THE SIEGE
CHAPTER V. SOLDIERS TWO
CHAPTER VI. THE GREAT KAI BOK-SU
CHAPTER VII. BESIEGING HEAD-HUNTERS
CHAPTER VIII. CITIES CAPTURED AND FORTS BUILT
CHAPTER IX. OTHER CONQUESTS
CHAPTER X. REENFORCEMENTS
CHAPTER XI. UNEXPECTED BOMBARDMENT
CHAPTER XII. TRIUMPHAL MARCH
CHAPTER XIII. THE LAND OCCUPIED
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Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
Published by Good Press, 2019
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So, one day, he sailed away from the mainland toward the Beautiful Isle. He landed at Takow in the south of the island, just about Christmas-time. But Formosa was green, the weather was hot, and he could scarcely believe that, at home in Oxford county, Ontario, they were flying over the snow to the music of sleigh-bells. On New Year's day he met a missionary of this south Formosa field, named Dr. Ritchie. He belonged to the Presbyterian Church of England, which had a fine mission there. For nearly a month Mackay visited with him and studied the language.
And while he visited and worked there the missionaries told him of the northern part of the island. No person was there to tell all those crowded cities of Jesus Christ and His love. It would be lonely for him there, it would be terribly hard work, but it would be a grand Thing to lay the foundations, to be the first to tell those people the "good news," the young missionary thought. And, one day, he looked up from the Chinese book he was studying and said to Dr. Ritchie:
