Harriette MacDougal was an early missionary to Borneo. Arriving with her husband and children along with a handful of other missionaries, the men soon traveled into the interior of the island to plot out the land. They never returned. So begins the story of a band of intrepid women who built a mission station and later a church and school, all while raising their children in a wild outpost of headhunters. They lived their lives as a sacrifice among the people who took their husbands. It didn't matter -- they came to bring the gospel to a people who had not yet heard it! This volume contains this wonderful, shocking and inspiring story, and also a brief anthropological sketch from a few decades later. Together they give a surprisingly thorough view of a people as yet barely touched by western civilization. As such, this volume is a valuable record of the life, culture and folklore of the Dyak people of Sarawak Borneo.

This book is a piece of history. What's more, it holds the power that the earliest missionaries walked in. It is a document of the salvation of a people. The Moravians were some of the first missionaries of modern times to heed the call and GO! Saved under the leadership of visionary Count Zinzendorf in Germany, the Moravians kindled a revival that lasted for over a hunderd years. During that time, men and women heard the call to bring the gospel into unknown lands before any other group would dare to go. This book is a foundational work describing the first efforts to bring the gospel to the inuit people of the far North. As such it is an important document. It is a window into culture, describing the Inuit people of Laborador as they were before European influence. But perhaps most importantly, it is a view into the spiritual birth of the people. It carries the initial spiritual keys to a people in history, and shows a people group first standing up to grasp their spiritual destiny.