A Lone Woman in Africa; Six Years on the Kroo Coast (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1896. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. UPS AND DOWNS. A New Helper.--A Clandestine Repast.--Burning of the Boys' House.--The Mission House Rebuilt.--Stair Building.--Redeeming Native Girls.--A Midnight Runaway.-- Peter.--Summoned to Court.--The Law's Delay. IN December, 1891, Miss Carlson, a young woman from Brooklyn, was sent to assist me at Garraway. She enjoyed the work and was of great assistance, staying longer than any other of my helpers, being with me six months, when she married one of our missionaries. In March, 1892, Miss Whitfield, who was going home to America for a rest, wrote asking me to come down to Cape Palmas, where she was, and take three of her school children to keep in our school until her return. I went to the Cape, leaving our own children in Miss Carlson's care. I had been absent three days when word came that there had been a fire at the Garraway mission and that the boys' house was burned. We had had a house built to accommodate the boys and for our interpreter, who was also in charge of the farm. But this man's wife had become dissatisfied, and had threatened to leave him if he did not move off the mission ground and build a house for her. As there was no other way to satisfy her, he built a house in the Christian town, and they moved into it. Even then she was not satisfied with his working on the farm, and to please her he also gave this up. The boys were thus left in their house alone, with one old man whom we had in the mission. I had charged them strictly that they should obey Miss Carlson in my absence, and not go off the farm without her consent. But the first night I was away, after prayers, the boys went to their own house to go to bed, and Miss Carlson, with the girls, retired to rest in the mission house. The boys' house had a mud floor, and was not...