An Edison drama which has a good deal of originality about it. The genius who conceived the idea of a love story in the missionary field of Africa deserves encouragement. Here is a missionary who has braved all the terrors of the cannibals' cooking methods, and other features of African life which are not conducive to quiet nerves, but when a dusky damsel weighing four hundred pounds or more attempts to make love to him and seize him in a passionate embrace he objected. But it was useless and the wedding preparations went forward merrily. But just at the critical juncture a warrior, who had sought the mountain-like belle's hand, returned and forced the missionary into mortal combat. But another diversion occurs. Happy at the chance of escape, even through death's door and the cook's department, the missionary lights his pipe. Every heathen except the lovely maiden disappears. That was a new one on them. Just as he is about to accept the martyrdom because he can't escape he wakes up and finds it is a dream. But all thoughts of the missionary field are abandoned and he returns to the world, the flesh and the other of the trilogy. The film is a mirth producer of merit, well acted, adequately staged and well photographed. It should be a winner. – The Moving Picture World, July 24, 1909
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