Captain Brassbound's Conversion

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - On the heights overlooking the harbor of Mogador a seaport on the west coast of Morocco the missionary in the coolness of the late afternoon is following the precept of Voltaire by cultivating his garden. He is an elderly Scotchman spiritually a little weatherbeaten as having to navigate his creed in strange waters crowded with other craft but still a convinced son of the Free Church and the North African Mission with a faithful brown eye and a peaceful soul. Physically a wiry small-knit man well tanned clean shaven with delicate resolute features and a twinkle of mild humor. He wears the sun helmet and pagri the neutral-tinted spectacles and the white canvas Spanish sand shoes of the modern Scotch missionary: but instead of a cheap tourist's suit from Glasgow a grey flannel shirt with white collar a green sailor knot tie with a cheap pin in it he wears a suit of clean white linen acceptable in color if not in cut to the Moorish mind.