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A HALF CENTURY AMONG THE
SIAMESE AND THE LĀO
Daniel McGilvary
AN APPRECIATION
Missionary biography is one of the most interestingand instructive of studies. It is,however, a department of missionary literatureto which Americans have not made proportionatecontribution. The foreign missionary Societies of theUnited States now represent more missionaries and alarger expenditure than the European Societies, butmost of the great missionary biographies are of Britishand Continental missionaries, so that many Americansdo not realize that there are me