The volume includes information on mission publications' editing of Arnott's writing, biographical sketches of other missionaries who worked in
Portuguese West Africa under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and notes about the illustrations in her book.
Born into a Congregationalist family in Minnesota in 1873, Nellie Arnott graduated from high school in Illinois, worked five years as a home missionary in Georgia and Mississippi, and, after studying at the Moody Bible Institute and Oberlin College and a period in New York State to remedy a health problem, embarked for
Portuguese West Africa in 1905 as a missionary.
WRONG (Harry points out) Barbados was formerly known as Portuguese West Indies, Angola was formerly known as
Portuguese West Africa Very true, Harry, and that is what the original question was at the quiz at the Newton Park in Heaton.