Etext scanned by Dianne Bean of Phoenix, Arizona. THE BLACK BEARDED BARBARIAN FOREWORD This is a very little story of a very great man. It contains only a few of the wonderful adventures he met, and the splendid deeds he did. Most of them may never be written. Perhaps they may be lived again in
The Black-Bearded Barbarian by Marian KeithThe Life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa
The Black-Bearded Barbarian by Marian Keith THE BLACK BEARDED BARBARIAN The name by which George Leslie Mackay was known among the Chinese of north Formosa. CHAPTER I. SPLITTING ROOKS Up in the stony pasture-field behind the barn the boys had been working all the long afternoon. Nearly all, that is, for, being boys, they had