The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-19
Nau Expedition to Explore
Central Africa.
oANAMA CANAL COMPANY
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and News Notes.

.,soudan, M. Grodet, writes of the
.,,cesstuI arrival at Timbuctoo of
.ho column under Commandant Tof-
h. 1t was composed of one and a
half companies of tiraileurs, an es-
c,dron Of spahis, thirty auxiliary
Arab spahis and two pieces of
mouptaln artillery. 1t crossed the
Nicer river on December 22nd and
,rriyed on Jan at Nampala, where
Il had to stop three days to
gather supplies for men and horses.
On the the goth it went to Niafounke,
town enclosed and protected by a
ditch full of water. Nioukon, the
chief of the region, had menaced
md insulted the scouts sent TO him
With friendly proposals, and his
Tsrriors, in line of battle before the
town. instead of being djsheartened
nv the frst fire of the French col
INN charged, MATHEMATICAL bravery
10 within three yards of the Freuch
front, losing a great number of their
force aud turning back in great dis
order when seeing that, instead of
the victory promised them in the
name Of their fetiches, they had only
crushing defeat.
After nights march Of ten hours
backward with half com pany,
Captain FROST succeeded in captur-
iuga great amount of grain and
iow large pirogues, or
boats, which the coming
Touaregs had concealed in the
hope of starving the French
column and impeding its move
ments. When crossing the river on
these pirogues the landing on the
other shore was opposed by the
Touareg Arabs, but they were pun
lshed heavily and put to rout by
The artillery. Ga February 18th
The column arrived at Timbuc,oo,
after having cleared the country Oh
rouaregs and having rendered mil
lary honors and Christian burial to
The corpses of the small column
that had been ambushed and massa'
creed in the middle of the night
BY an overwhelming number of
louaregs, after a heroic defense.
The chief of the Soumpe district
'lned in friendship with the
French and accompanied the column
10 Tlmbuctoo, being greatly i'm
pressed during that march by the
slndness of the French TO their
trends, and their vigorous fighting
against their enemies.
The German press predicts that
The conquest of Timbuctoo viii
prove very difficult aud costly en-
'efprlse, considering the hostility,
lae fanatici.m, the indomitab {
:amper and the great number of the
i0uaregs, who, for 80 many cen
'ufles, have been used to overcome
and rob the other inhabitants and
'iavelers of central Soudan. But
'ae same was prophesied in ragard
Ssso Algiers and Tunis, and the
french have proved how their tao,
aad benevolent policy can master
zoe greatest difficulties. The frs
move of this African policy is tc
'appress the hostile religious fanat
c'sm of the Mahometan population
spa tribes, and it is very easily
aoae Upon entering a Malone
s'a region the French comm andel
u" the Ulemas or Mahometan cler
~ y advised that they will be made
,s'plonsib.e for religious opposition
ianatlcal hostility; that if they
i w. their religious inf aence in the
's.sfest of the French they will be
,ss'o o lib orally and their reli
S b., |, and m aterial interest protec ed
, W. That if they do not they will b'
n 1 y, Never yet have they refused
Vaoose the first horn of the di
smo us' and soon things run very
,,s,u0tnly. Now in Tunis, for in
'D's' the native semitic popala