THE STORY OF
CHALMERS OF
NEW GUINEA

BY
JANET HARVEY KELMAN

WITH PICTURES BY
W. HEATH ROBINSON

LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.

Tamate and Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa

Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
Edinburgh

SEVENTY years ago a group of children gatheredround a wise and kindly Scotchwoman, and ever,as one tale ended, they shouted, “Tell on, Bell, tell on.”

Some of the stories she told are forgotten, and it ismany days since the fortunes she read were proved trueor false, but other little children re-echo the old request,and James Chalmers knew well how to answer it whenhe wrote for us of Kone and of Aveo, of the wild wavesof the Pacific, and of the wilder men on its islands.

His life’s adventure here is over. He will not comeback to us nor tell us one tale more. But who shallsay that we may not reach him one day, greet himwith the old words, “Tell on, tell on,” and listen, raptand eager, to stories of brave deeds and strange voyagesin that new world in which he lives?