The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-06-08
DISGUISED MISSIONARIES.
Back from Liberia Feeling Very, BIue--Run
Short of Clothing.

Short of Clothing.
From the New York World.
The bark Liberia, which has been en-
gagged in the transportation of negroes to
the American colony in Africa, yesterday
returned to this port after an absense of
seventy six days. She had on board as
passengers three missionaries, whose eff
forts to elvagelize that section of the
Dark Continent to which negro emigra-
ton has lately been headed had not met
with striking success.
One of the trio is the Rev. Sandy Wash
ington, a colored man, who halls from
St Paul, MINI. The Rev. Sandy was
sent out by the Pilgrims Baptist Church
of st. Paul, He came back with the
conviction that the task to watch he had
heen assigned was a hopeless one.
A Predetermined parson is Sandy,
and when he undertook the job of con-
verting the uncivilized he treated it prac-
tically, Finding calculations unavailing
! he supplemented his oratorical efforts
by gifts of wearing apparel to his listen
ers.
The chief of village who had kept
aloof from the meetings was subsidized
by the present of a plug hat, and lent
his presence to one of the gatherings.
When the meeting was over he offered
to attend again for the consideration of
another lift. The m ssionary did not
have any more hats, so compromise
was effected by the gift of an overcoat.
The Rev. Sandy left fifteen converts be-
hind him IN that village all decked in
some article of his wearing appeared
Sandy next essayed to make converts
IN the Cooley country, where a chief by
the name OF Dindo reigned supreme. 1t
cost the good missionary nearly all of
his clothes to make Dindo see the error
of his ways His efforts at the next vii
lage at which he stopped for reform pur
poses was the least satisfactory of all.
The fame Of his munifcence had pre-
coded him, and when the expectant
chief received no gift relations between
the two became very much strained.
Sandy finally got back to his starting
point, convinced that missionary work
in such circumstances was a little too
much of strain on his capital to be in
dulged in at length.
Another missiona nv whose experience
has been equall7 unsatisfactory is Abra-
ham Bostick, who left Atlanta, Ga. one
year ago at the behest of the Liberian
Missionary Society. On arrival at Mon
rovia he was delegated to visit an inte-
Tior settlement. The climate proved too
much for him, and he returned in bad
health and almost destitute. He is now
interested in knowing how to get back to
his home in Atlanta.
The third of the returning trio is
very intelligent white missionary, who
was sent out by the International Mis-
sionary Society of ST. Paul. He spent
fifteen months in the vincinity of Sierra
Leone, and APPARENTLY does not consider
the outlook very promising. The Am
erican negro emigrant, he says, disavows
his nationality on arrival in Africa and
haughtily speaks of himself as a Faro
pean He also manages to attract atten-
zion by the slot of style he puts on,
and generally refers to the natives as
Africans heathens." His greatest am
bition, the missionary says, is to have
plenty of rum to drink and to own a
slave. Slavery, he adds, is quite com
mon in the various settlements.
Beside the missionaries, the Liberia
bad as passengers thirteen monkeys, thir-
ty parrots, three snakes, four Kroo boys
and one Kroo girl. The Kroo people
are said to be the first of their race ever
brought to this country. They are sent
here by the Liberian missionaries to be
educated in Nashville, Tenn. The girl
is the oldest of the quintet She is about
IS years of age and speaks English very
well.