Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-11
A MARTYR MISSIONARY.
How Bishop Harrington was Killed in
Africa.

Africa.
Rev. William Jones, who was Bishop
Hannington's companion in travelling to
Kavirondo, has sent this account of his
death to the English Church Missionary
Society:
At Uganda the Bishop said he would
arrange with some OF the missionaries
there, and if any expressed a desire to go
to the coast, he would ask him or the IN
to take the new route and pick up the
! caravan at Sundu's village In Kavir0ndO,
/ and then to proceed to the coast. Ac-
cordingly. his lOrdship got all the loads
nicely selected, and packed sufficient TO
take his lOrdship's party to Uganda and
| from thence to the coast via Unyam weZi.
! On oct u, his lordsbip, with the party of
| 80 men and their loads, left me and the re-
mainder of the caravan at Sundu's viii
! lage. Here | parted with the Bishop.
The Bishop, thus started, went on coast
| ing the lake, which was reached on the
| third day after leaving Sundu's village.
| On the 10th day of the Bishops journey
| the party found themselves in a country
which is described as being full of plan
| tain trees, which forms the chief
article OF food Of that part of the
world. The Bishop asked for the chief
| of the country. The chief, being inform
| ed OF the Bishops arrival. came to greet
! him. The chief then asked the Bishop
! how long it was since he had left the
coast. The Bishop said three months.
/ The chief then asked the the Bishop tor
| ten guns and ten barrels of powder as
| hongo. The Bishop said that he could
not comply with such high demand Of
| hOngo in his friend Mtesa's country. The
| chief after that went away home rather
| in bad mood, and the Bishop instead of
! the above demand simply sent him one
barrel of powder and four elbows of clotn.
Soon after that, the chief sent some men,
who pretended to conduct the Bishop TO a
place from whence he could see the lake.
! The Bishop most eagerly followed the
men, with only one follower. They had
! scarcely gone any distance when the Bish-
| CD and his men were caught and tied
| and conveyed To the village by a way
| through which the Bishops men could
not see their master being taken away in
a manner that would excite them. How
ever, one Of the Bishops men happened to
J be in a place where, to his great horror
and surprise, he saw the Bishop aud DIS
| follower being conducted into the village
with their hands tied with ropes, and
| soon went to inform bis companions Of il.
| There was no more order after that. The
Bishops goods we're all ordered 10 be Ia
ken 10 the chiefs home. Some Of the
| cooking materials Of the Bishop were soon
scrambled By the natives. The men. ter
ror-stricken. did not know what 10 do.
/ The Bishop was asked TO wait for an an
swer from the great chief. For eight
days the Bishop was IN his confinement,
while his men were allowed to 20 about
the place. On the eighth day the messen-
ger sent 10 the great chief returned, and
on the same night there was a great deal
OF drumming and shouting among the ma
tiYes. When our men asked what was
the cause Of the shouting among the viii
layers, they were told that the great chief
had given orders that the Mzungu should
proceed on TO Uganda TO see the great
| chief On the following day all the Bish-
ops men we're disarmed in the morning,
after which they were caught, ana tied
two by two together. and then confined in
different huts. Az $3.50 p. m. the Bishop
| and the meu were taken TO a bush far
away from the village, those who led the
Bishop leading the way; when they got TO
the place the dear Bishop and his cook
were those whom they killed first, by
shooting them, and the mean sUeared.
! -Four men in a most prOyidennal manner
/ escaped from this scene Of murder to
tell me how the Bishop got killed, and
| also how their companions grOaned under
the spear OF the people they never offend.
! ed. or the four men who escaped, one is
"A Christian from Frere Town, one is from
Rabai, and two are from Zanzibar. Their
statement is precisely the same Of the
Bishops death, but as 10 how they made
their escape is a mystery TO which could
not get y satisfactory reply from either OF
them. The report is universally ae-
knOwledged by all the surrounding tribes
| that the white man who went toward the
| lake Il killed.