Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-21
KILLED BY SAVAGES.
4 Hundred German Soldiers
Die on Africa's Biggest
Mountain Side.
0NE-EYED KING MANDARA
Plays Fickle to Both Victoria's and
Williams Forces.
THE COUNTRY Is ABANDONED
BY All Who StrOye to Uphold the Emperors
National Emblem.
TIE COUNTRY is ABANDONED
AISSI0NARIES NURSE THE WOUNDED
rspEc1AL rrLEGRAN TO THE DISPATCH !

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.1
ZANZIBAR, June 20.-News has been re-
ceived confirming the report of the defeat
Of the German forces under the command
Of Baron Bulow in the Moshi territory.
The district around Fort Marong, to which
the Germans were compelled to retreat and
subsequently abandon, has been deserted by
foreigners
The English missionaries who are work
ing in The district are safe and are nursing
iae wounded Germans, the lives of several
of whom have been saved by the mission
8rieS BUllow lost a hundred men.
This is the third of the serious reverses
5hat have overiaken the German arms since
Germany started its colony on the East
African coast. Bulow's 100 men died on
the southern slope OF the greatest mountain
in Africa.
The Country of Their Fate.
The country of Noshi, where they met
their fate. is one of the most interesting
ma delightful regions in tropical Africa.
% gives an idea of the size of the great
mountain when it is said that Moshi lies
NLolly along its southern slope, that several
arie.> divide the territory among them and
taat they can muster perhaps, 10000
lEhtiu- men. They have been usually en-
rsced in warfare with one another, but
there must have been combination of forces
to cause the great disater which has befal-
.yG a well armed German force.
The Uost important of these chiefs is
N.ng Nandara, the one-eved potentate who
long ago was made famous by explorers.
Joseph Thomson first described him and
l1i friendly relations with him. 1t was
King Maudara's ambassadors who went to
Berlin nearly three years ago resolved not
10 be astonished at anything they saw.
From first to last they declared that their
Ning hat much more wonderful things in
Ills country, and they regarded him as
rr.a.er ruler than the young Emperor
William.
NIaudara was tickle and made things un-
pleasant Tor some explorers. He tried to
starve Il. Il. Johnston during the months
-Hich that explorer spent on the upper
sloHes OF The mountain. The willy old king
wished 10 extort larger presents from his
visitor and caused Johnston no end of yex-
alton.
climates to Suit All Corners.
-The warriors of Moshi have every climate
r.l al q few hours march of their homes
X E-ta-\ iaro, on Its southern slope, is
clothed Tor about 5000 feet with verdure.
Eur several thousand feet up the mountain
-a. native plantations are crowded thick to-
. her and the vegetation is wholly of
0ical character. Further up vegetation
|..1mes more sparse, until finally
..l plants that are found on
lsrtiprs of the rpric reuioD Than
ae-dS the area of eternal snow upon
rh Nandara and his ancestors gazed for
.-turies. not knowing what it was, for
..e OF them ever ventured up to the snow
.. The cold scared them away long be-
r. they got into the neighborhood OF ice
.3 snow.
.nluston's porters, whom Mandara had
ui-hed deserted him when they reached
.a SnOw-llne and defeated his purpose of
ending to the ice-bound crater of Kibo.
.-a.pr explorers had the greatest difficulty
90 tempting the natives above the snow
.Ine. auG il was only by threatening his
men with severe punishment that Mandara
sf length induced q few blacks to stand bv
%. Never as he struggled over the ice
ard tile top Of the mountain.
he poor wretches were nearly frozen and
.-n Explorer was compelled to leave them
'Hl below the top of Kibo.
Rivals FOR the African Paradise
About four years ago the English and
tz-rIaags became rivals for the possession
u, his beaU,iGl land of Moshi A German
rras first on the ground with a flag, which
l.audara rraciously accepted simply be-
cause there came with it an abundant SUD-
ply Of presents. a little later an English
man came along with a British flag, and
~. a lara promptly hauled down the German
e.. 1lcm and holsted the British colors.
The next traveller was a representative of
Germany and a liberal supply of presents
rgused the English flag in its turn to trail
3D. the dust and the German colors again
t'oared from the flagstaff. The rivalry was
finally ended by the agreement between
Ia Gland and Germany as TO their boundary,
which was drawn Just north of Kilima-
Marc, so that Moshi was left entirely
iu the possession of the Germans
The Germans have for some time main
tanned a station there and missionaries have
been at work among the natives. We have
no intimatian Of the cause of the
trouble which brought about an
uprising of these mountaineers against
their German rulers. 1t is more
thau likely that the Germans have been
guilty Of the same mismanagement and lack
@. tact which have precipitated their other
tr0gbIes in Africa, and that the disaster
which has overtaken Bulow might have
lseu obviated by the exercise of greater