Excerpt from Missionary Life Among the Cannibals; Being the Life of the Rev. John Geddie, D.D., First Missionary to the New Hebrides: With a History of the Nova Scotia Presbyterian Mission on That Group Indeed, in regard to his public missionary life, our materials are so abundant that our chief difficulty has been in selecting what was the most suitable for our object. -dr. G. Made it a point to keep the Church informed of his work, and therefore embraced every opportunity of writing, however hurriedly. And, though he wrote with a rapidity which a newspaper correspondent might envy, yet his letters contain scarcely an erasure or interlineation, while his narrative style will bear comparison with that of the best English historian. Our work, therefore, has been chiefly to select and to condense. It is right to say that through his letters are many pious ejaculations and reflections, which we have frequently been obliged to omit for the sake of retaining his narrative in full. Further, we should add, that in some instances, where the same incident is recorded in two places, as in two letters, or in his journal and a letter, we have combined the two. With these slight exceptions, our readers have his writings as they came from his pen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.