3-086-227 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Rising in Sierra Leone: a view of Freetown, capital of the British Settlement, 1898. 'The native rebellion in several parts of the Sierra Leone territories becomes more and more alarming. It has, we regret to learn, already been attended with the massacre of some missionaries, English or American, who were engaged in the peaceful works of benevolence and religion. The names hitherto known are those of the Rev. J. N. Cain and Mrs. Cain, Miss Archer, Miss Hatfield, and Miss Schenk, all probably attached to the American Methodist Mission, the ladies being medical nurses. Other missionaries - Mr. and Mrs. Burtner, Mr. and Mrs. Minshall, Miss Mullen, and Miss Ward - have reached Freetown safely. The insurrection appears to prevail simultaneously in the Sherbro district, around the seaport of Bonthe, on the coast to the south-east of Sierra Leone, and in the interior far up the river at Karene, above Port Lokko, where Bai Bureh, the chief rebel leader of the Timini tribes, has collected a large hostile force. Freetown itself could be defended from attack by the aid of armed boats from the naval squadron....' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.