The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-08-15
AN EXCITING CHASE.
a CANOE RACE IN WHICH A HUMAN
LIFE WAS THE STAKE.
The Adventure of n Missionary In
the Konso Country and How He
Saved a Native From Being Cooked
and Eaten by the Cnnnibals.

INC kAOHSO Country anu HOW He
Saved q Native From Being Cooked
and Eaten by the C~nnnibals.
The stories that missionaries send
home often throw a vivid light upon
the dark and savage conditions that
encompass them. One Of the teachers
or the American Baptist Missionary
union, in his annual report, tells of a
recent incident that occurred far up
h Kongo river among the natives
Ewing around the shores of Lake Turn
ba, only a short distance south of the
big river.
EARLY n Sunday morning, as the
missionary and his wife were prepar--
Ing for the duties Of the day, they
heard a shout from the lake. An old
man was seen seated in a canoe, which
a number of stalwart fellows were
padding as fast as they could toward
h little river that carries the waters
of the lake to the Kongo, Il few miles
north. The old man was crying in a
frantic and despairing voice:
"Mpebe Ia Monkasa.''
These were the N by which the
missionary and his wife are known to
the natives. The old fa,,o1v calla1.
them again ana asain III, no saw tl,a
white man ana Ills Vie .s+anain. -,
h beach. Then he shouted to them:
.Oh. come ana save moi. Thav ~.
taking mo AWAY &, ,yir ana aot ,naw
The missiorarv ,,nTars4acd tho s;t,,,
ton at once. Tie place Is not more
Of the nreat Mo ar,af tr;r,,,tarv ~ +ha
Kongo. The bar,.s If t,,a Mobopy; ara
lined with cannif,al tribos aI,d f. l. ono
of the rreatesr botbaf1s or can,ibaI.
ism
Explorers have Otto, to,a of tba
canoes se,,t out e|on fb,sa tr-,,as - tha
districts . LITTLE so,,., Of ma nonao Pow
no other n,,mnose nan 4, INV slss'ss IN
steal me- ia co,,.v . v,v - ,i,air ,.o,,os
for their cannibal fa,srs pa,a p-.s
old friend az no ,,ission ,,as v,lo ma
fallen into t,se nov5e, OF thasa sar.uo
fora rars ,lot :. amanant u,os ~ So
lost for rho canoe y,,s shootip. r.st
tho station ona ron;dl, o,,,roaoh;,a
the foot of t,,a i5,.e
A. a word f,on, t,a wb;+a
half dozan .o,,no bl.o ,,s launched
ca,y,e IN tho lake and nl;ea thair nod.
dies with NIL tbei, mioht n wos an
exciting cbasa Tho cann,,,,Is saaina
they yrora n,,,.s,,ad r.louh,o,, tl,air On
erqies "a r..rh rho r;ver a Pow milo.
north of ,],a,, q voc q bo,+ ,ooo =,
dead earnest and the stake was a
h,ymon life
There vy..,. s;x of tho n,,rs,,e,s and
only fo,,r ~ tho f,,o,,tira o,noaman
The CHASING nartv had . larga, s,,m
total of muscle and this advant,ga ha.
pan to toll Slow-,v tho mission,,r host
oainad nm tho cann.h.ls n,ho cow a.
last that thew wo,,,d cartoinlv ha
caught before they ,.ache the liver
T,hen thev naddlad Iil,a m.d FOR Tho
shore and the n,,rs,,ers were only .
few boat ,enoths from them nc they
ran their canoe nm on tba beach
The canni,,o,s i,,mned ont and three
of them node their esc,na into tho
woods. carr, ine witb.them a consider.
able %nuontitv of hr,ss wire tho form
of MONEY +l,ev nsa in h,,,,ine s,oros
The fourth man was m.,la a n,isonor
and wos +okan hocl, 70 tho m;ssionarr
settlement with the moor old c.ntive
who was now tremh,inp with iov no =
few moments before ha had oyo,,od
with fear Tho missionarv says tho+ e.
he had not callad for helm ha would
nrohahlv have haan killed heeora niaht
The exnected t,en bannanad Of
course. the vegas did rot relish tho
idea of returnine 10 their naonla With.
ont any victim, and with ono op +bair
marty missing. Tho white mar fal+ cor.
tain thew world try to ransom thair
comrade, md s,,,.a enopgb tho cros+.
allen man eaters oftar q ,;tt,e while
anneared within hail;ne distanoa
T,bav had brass wire thav s,,n,,+aa
and how m,,cb did tba white m,n wont
in excb.noa FOR 1beir f,.iand
ne "an.eu aii 'hes mao ana arter
ons,uerapie l%palieslhs IL lot OF WIRE
WIS piousn Ian way 10 Tue stallon.
me oiu hiuh sa'u ne was sure TINS
wire was il HIS captOTS IaQ In the