It is written as a narrative of events in the tribal life of a boy and girl in the Congo Forest, culminating in an exciting fight between the tribe and a band of Arab slave traders which ends in the discomfiture of the latter.
Lunette Emeline Lamprey (penname Louise Lamprey) was born in 1869 in Alexandria, New Hampshire. Her father was a minister. She graduated in 1891 from Mount Holyoke College as a member of its first graduating class. Lamprey went on to become one of the first woman editors of a Washington D.C. newspaper, The Capitol.