Chapter I: Preface

This book in its more expensive forms has been before the public for nearly two years. It has been very widely read, and it has received extraordinary attention from many sections of the press. The author has received from all parts of the world most striking testimonies as to the way in which this record of James Gilmour's heroic self-sacrifice for the Lord Jesus and on behalf of his beloved Mongols for the Master's sake has touched the hearts of Christian workers. It has deepened their faith, strengthened their zeal, nerved them for whole-hearted consecration to the same Master, and cheered many a solitary and lonely heart.

Many requests have been received for an edition at a price which will place the book within the reach of Sunday School teachers, of those Christian workers who have but little to spend upon books, and of the elder scholars in our schools. The Committee of the Religious Tract Society have gladly met this request at the earliest possible moment.

In this new form their hope and prayer is that James Gilmour, being dead, may yet speak to many hearts, arousing them to diligent, and faithful, and self-denying service for Jesus Christ.

The book, in this its newest form, is identical in all respects with the first and second editions, except that only one portrait is given and the appendices are left out.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. EARLY YEARS AND EDUCATION 15

II. BEGINNING WORK 46

III. MONGOLIAN APPRENTICESHIP 55

IV. THE FIRST CAMPAIGN IN MONGOLIA 88

V. MARRIAGE 98

VI. 'IN JOURNEYINGS OFTEN, IN PERILS OF RIVERS' 105

VII. THE VISIT TO ENGLAND IN 1882 134

VIII. SUNSHINE AND SHADOW 154

IX. A CHANGE OF FIELD 176

X. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS AS ILLUSTRATED BY
LETTERS TO RELATIVES AND FRIENDS 228

XI. CLOSING LABOURS 256

XII. THE LAST DAYS 298

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PORTRAIT OF JAMES GILMOUR FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN
AT TIENTSIN ON APRIL 1891 _Frontispiece_

A MONGOL ENCAMPMENT 109

A MONGOL CAMEL CART 139

A CHINESE MULE LITTER 156

JAMES GILMOUR EQUIPPED FOR HIS WALKING EXPEDITION
IN MONGOLIA IN FEBRUARY 1884 159

JAMES GILMOUR'S TENT 245

MAPS

1. MAP ILLUSTRATING JAMES GILMOUR'S JOURNEYS ON THE
GREAT PLAIN OF MONGOLIA 54

2. MAP ILLUSTRATING JAMES GILMOUR'S LABOURS IN EASTERN
MONGOLIA 179

For readers of _James Gilmour of Mongolia_ not familiar with _Among
the Mongols_, a new Edition of that Work has been prepared and
published, price Two Shillings and Sixpence.

JAMES GILMOUR OF MONGOLIA