ABOUT BOOK

Afraid to cross a field because there was a cow in it! What a coward she must have been! Oh, no, she wasn't! Look at her again, in the heart of the African jungle, after a journey by canoe and on foot through dripping underbrush, in such inky darkness that she stumbled and fell again and again, while the screams of night birds and the cries of wild animals were heard on all sides. Why was she there, do you wonder? Because she longed to help the ignorant savages who were living there in ignorance and wickedness and superstition, and she felt that God had called her to live among them. In Scotland she was afraid of a cow, but in Africa she was not afraid of anything. Here is a heroine whose bravery any boy or girl may be proud to imitate —Mary Slessor of Calabar, known to the natives as the White Queen of Okoyong.