New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-11
HER WORK FOR AFRICA.
Liberian Missiomary's Thrilling En-
pcriences Among SaOages.

quiet little woman who has seen stirring
times arrived in New-York on Saturday by the
steamer Celtic She is Mrs. Mary Allen an Ameri-
can woman who has spent the last five years
among people whom she described savages and
devil worshippers. Mrs. Allen is a missionary
from Liberia and when she left Africa the tribe
among which she had been working. the Mana
kroos, was engaged in a fierce conflict with two
tribes OF Bushmen- Mrs. Allen living all
alone among these people, but she was not afraid
The Liberian troops offered protection" she
said to a Tribune reporter. who saw her on the
White Star dock; but ] did not want to
leave my house TO be looted. ard I refused.
No, was not afraid. and 1 not molested,
though battle was fought on my mission
grounds think the Lord takes care Of me. The
Nanakroo queen. the head wife OF the king. took
refuge with me for day, but attempt was
made TO take her. II she had been captured by the
Bushmen, the Nanakroos would nave been COM
PEELED according TO intertribal law. surrender.
THE fighting carried IN most barbarous
fashion II the place had not been the coast
where steamers are constantly stopping the Mana
kroos would probably have eaten bodies OF
their dead enenies. AS IL was. they threw them
into the bush. and I stumbled day. over a
trunk from which the limbs and head had been
removed. Some OF the bodies were chopped to
pieces. and the limbs. heads and ears were sent
the various towns as trophies OF victories.
The mortality almost entirely among the
Bushmen. because the Nanakroos were aided by
the Lberian government and were armed with
and cutlasses The Nanakroos owed their success
entirely TO the assistance OF the government, for
the Bushmen outnumbered them twenty TO one,
and completely surrounded them
The trouble has been brewing for ten years. and
is the result OF the fact that the tribes in the in
terror want access to the coast. At present the
Nanal1roos act as middiemen between the Bush
and the traders. The still going
when left and the thing viii never be settled
until trading posts established among the
Bushmen- tried to negotiate peace myself. but
Mrs. Allen said she had come TO America partly
70 raise money for her work, but chiefly TO secure
negro settlers for Liberia
Il want TO take back thirty negro families as
object lessons Of the effects Of Christianity" she
me with my WORT but / want the majority simply
70 live their ordinary lives there. The Nanakroos
that anything that comes from another country
brings them good luck They regarded me IN that
night, and that was one reason why ! telt perfecuy
safe among them. Besides that. went among
them as the guest Of the kings brother, and they
nave great regard Tor the dunes OF hospitsAliiy
''The chief result Of my work perhaps Is the
opening OF the way for future efforts The KING
s9h Is among my converts ana announcer menlper Oh
MS family. who has since died also became a
Christian his way OF announcing the change 10
The kings son by the way knows the re, wtole
OF the Old Testament. The people are very bright
and quick 10 learn, and are capable OF ciy1izatlon
virtues that primitive races are sometimes credited
with. They are sayageS and cannibals; spend most
TO their deities. even TO their wives and chidren'
though this latter have never seen
prevent its being called the Mary Allen Mission.
20 AFRICA as an i6dependent worker after having
been refused on account Of her health, by the
lence
During my residence in Africa" she said IT
@ aTgTs a%d e ae S TO i've and work for
Africa for good many years yet