Excerpt from A Geography and Atlas of Protestant Missions, Vol. 1: Their Environment, Forces, Distribution, Methods, Problems, Results and Prospects at the Opening of the Twentieth Century; Geography The present work is the twenty-third in a series of textbooks that have been published since 1894 for the use of students in the institutions of higher learning of North America. As those for whom the books are primarily prepared are members of study classes conducted by the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, their needs have determined the typographical peculiarities and the selection of material here found. The general aim of the present volume is to present in Part I of each chapter facts bearing on the geography, ethnography and religions of the country under discussion, thus placing the reader in possession of the main elements in the missionary's environment. Part II follows with a statement of the missionary force, work and outlook. This part of each chapter is a present-day survey only. Volume II is a royal quarto. It contains, in addition to the maps especially prepared for this work, an index to mission stations and the statistics of more than four hundred independent and auxiliary societies. Its size makes it possible to present on a single page extended tables, as well as to print far larger maps than could appear in a volume as small as this one. Unlike the missionary maps printed hitherto by the Volunteer Movement and by most missionary societies, in which few towns except those occupied by missionaries appear, these maps are purposely made full in order to give some conception of the land yet to be possessed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.