The St. Johns herald., 1892-01-07
AN AFRICAN WAR ENDED.
Whites and Arabs on Lake Nyassa Make
 Peace After Two Years Fighting.

Whites and Arabs on Lake Nyassa Make
 Peace After Two Years Fighting.
 Three years ago war began between the Arab traders on the northern shores of Lake Nyassa and the Scottish mis- iionaries and agents of the African lakes Company. This beautiful re- ,ion, says the New York Sun, was one If the greatest slave hunting grounds if the Arabs. The white station at zaronga, on the northwest coast of the ake, interfered with the slave traffic y protecting thousands of natives LCainst the Arab raiders. The Arabs inally decided to wipe out all the whites in that region, and they there ore attacked the station at KarOnga. Tor two years the war waged. Hardly nore than a bakers dozen of white nen with a few hundred native allies lot only defended themselves against he desperate attacks of the Arabs, but also ventured outside their own fortli- cations and marched miles to attack the Arabs in their strongholds. In all the engagements neither side ever sue ,eeded in capturing the Notifications of ;he enemy, but they inflicted good 7eal of loss upon one another, and brought all the evils of war upon the northern districts of Lake Nyassa.
 The war is now happily at an end. One of the purposes for which H. H. Johnston went to Lake Nyassa last year was to endeavor to make peace be- ween the belligerents. He found at he northern end of the lake mission tries ready at a moments notice to strap on their muskets, and many native soldiers whom they had drilled to take part in the struggle. The gar rison at Karonga had accumulated an enormous stock of native provisions, such as Indian corn, millet, manloc, vans, sweet potatoes, and so on, to pre- vent the possibilities of being starved out by the Arabs during the long ab- sences of their steamer.
 Johnston found that about half of the white men had been compelled to leave the place, owing to serious wounds or sickness. Karonga was now in the hands of four white men. They, with their little native army, had completely destroyed all the Arab crops and sources of food supply, and were so un- ceasingly harassing the Arabs with am- bushes and sharpshooters that the ene- my were really confined to their strong holds, and were being brought low by gradual starvation. It was hard to say which party would be the first to give in. The British were getting very near the bottom of their ammunition chest, and the Arabs were eating rats, leather and roots, besides being scourged by smallpox.
 It was at this critical period that Johnston arrived. He was unable to get party from Karonga to accompany lirn to the Arabs, as they feared treach- cry, and the Arabs would not meet him if he was accompanied by an armed force. At last, with one white assistant and few porters, he travelled half way to the Arab camp and sent on mes senger to invite the Arabs to netting. Ascertaining by their spies that he was not at the head of an army, they put on their best attire and came out to meet him unarmed. The ice was broken, and then and there the main principles of treaty-of peace were drawn up. The next day the treaty was signed. The Arabs agreed to engage only in legiti mate trade in that region, and to live m peace with the whites. The war that lasted over two years has resulted in the interest of civilizing influences