Athens Messenger in Athens, Ohio

In the Masai Ambush and the Mackenzie Mission

The narrator details a perilous river journey in Central Africa. Masai warriors attack the canoe, severing its moorings and killing a servant, as the party fights back with Umslopogans battlax. They later reach Mr Mackenzie’s mission estate atop a hill, admiring a vast garden and defensive ditch and wall surrounding the property.