Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-14
a cRUMHaNo EMPIRE.
inc largest of South African Native STAT.
Falling to Pieces.

NhhS To Pieces.
a great native empire in Africa has
oeen going to pieces within the past
Two years, and is now the prey al ALI
It's enemies. 1t is the empire Of tho
Muata Yamvo, whose dominions have
embraced a territory as large as Ger
many, and who was heard OF scores ~
years before any white man visited
Lunda, whose rulers bear the title Of
Muata Yamvo.
When the Congo Independent State
was formed it was at first intended to
embrace IN 1t the entire Congo basin.
except those small parts OF it which
mad been appropriated by the French
ana Portuguese. 1t was thought,
however, that the Muata Yamvo was
TOO powerful person to NEEDLE with.
and it was finally decided to let him
alone. This is the reason that the
Congo State has such a peculiarly
shaped southern frontier. On the map
1t bears some resemblance to slice Of
bread out OF which an urchin has bit
ten a large mouthful. The missing
chunk is the Muata Yamvo's empire.
1t was the pleasant custom OF this
ruler not long ago to dispatch mes
sengers, sometimes hundreds of miles,
to chiefs who had incurred his ill will.
The messenger would hand knife to
the object of the Emperor's wrath
and intimate that it was the royal will
that he kill himself. No instance has
until recently been reported of failure
promptly to accomplish this disagree
able duty. But while ago some Of
the big chiefs began to put
on independent airs, declined te
, pay tribute any longer, ani
even had the impudence to refuse tx
kill themselves when their thoughtful
master sent them the knife TIL,
troubles of the Muata Yamvo began
, with the detection of his powerful
i chiefs. and this spirit OF rebellion il
G Lunda has encouraged her enemies t.
make forays into the country for al
they could find.
A little man, scarcely five feet high
has done more than any other person
:, destroy the once famous Muata Yamvc
=, He is Kangombe, the chief of the LII
= vale country south Of Lunda. Arme
= with plenty of guns, his bands hav
=, swept like cloud of locusts far owe
y Lunda for three years past, returnin
" home with lots of ivory and thousand
$ of slaves. A while ago Mrs Arnot TO
: lowed for several days in the wake I
'e Kangombe's victorious army, and sa
} all the horrors of savage warfare.
i was six days after Kangombe's soldier
= had passed over the road, and yet A
III not found that some of his victims WI
ie had been left to perish were still aliv
>. Some were tied to trees with bar
III cords, and others were mutilated
W that they could not walk.
Is The Muata Yamvo has sent armi
g. to fight Kangombe, but they had on
native weapons, and melted away b
U.s. fore he firearms Of the enemy. Al
Re, here curious fact may be mentione
ne Weak, ned by his many reverses a
TO stripped of much OF his territory, t
by Muata Yamvo has accepted prott
it. torate offered by Portugal And J
nd it is the munitions of war that ha
us poured into Portuguese ports and be
et sold by Portuguese traders to his Ell
d. mics that have reduced the Mu;
he Yamvo to his present impoverish
dy condition. N Y. Sun.