The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-02-01
7HE BRITISH INVASION
Against the Fulahs South Of the
Niger River,
A FJIAH CAPITAL DESTROYED.
The Royal Niger Company Has Sent q
Powerful Expedition Against the Natives
in the Vicinity of Habba, But May be
Overwhelmed by Numbers.

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Powerful Expedition Against the Natives
in tho Vicinity of Kabba. but May be
Overwhelmed by Numbers.
LONDON, Feb. IA telegram from
Egoom, in the middle Niger region, dated
Jan. 22, says that the column of the Royal
Niger oompany's expedition against Emir
and Nupe arrived in good order, after a
seventeen days march Of 200 miles. The
men were at times compelled to march
single file through the bush. The power
OF the Fulahs I'm bhe regions of the south
Niger river has been utterly destroyed.
The iotilla and a detachment accom-
paning the expedition surprised and do
stroyed the southern Fulah, capital of
adj. This town was a depot for stores,
and the Fuiahs were retreating in that
direction when It was captured. Twelve
hundred slaves were rescued. Most Of
these slaves were elderly men, all the
women and children of both sexes having
boon sent to the capital at Bida.
A recent telegram from Lagos gives an
count of the expedition sent out by the
Royal Niger company. This expedition
consisted Of 800 hausa troops. six Maxims,
twenty-six mounted European officers and
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ornor, accompanied the column. The Royal
Niger oompany's hotilla Of armed stern
wheeled steamers was ordered to patrol
the Niger for the purpose Of cutting off the
retreat of the Fulah forces to Bida. The
London Times gives an account Of this
expedition and of the strange people
against which 1t was directed. The Times
says:
''The Fulah army has assembled at
Kabba. The Fulahs in the vicinity Of
Kabba are said to number nearly 10000
foot and 1000 eaualry, and the troops Of
the company have an arduous and aperil-
GUS task before them. The enemy are
subjects Of the Mahommedan Bmir of
Nupe, the most powerful of the vassal
states dependent on the great Mahomme-
dan empire Of Sokoto.
1.-THE quarrel between the Emir Nupe
and the company is Of long standing It
has been his practice to execute whole
sale raids on the slaves to the south of the
Niger and the Blnuo amongst the tribes
under the protection of the company. He
was warned in 1892, when Sir George
Goldie and Lord Scarborough visited Bida,
his capital, that If this practice were per-
severed in he would have to fight the COM
pany, and for some years the raids were
discontinued.
Last May he sent the Prince Markum
into the district southwest Of the Niger
with the object Of resuming the raids or
Of attacking Lokoja, the military capital
Of the company, as soon as the land was
dry enough to admit Of operations, and
the Markum had established himself at
Kabba. 1t was at this point apparently
that the troops Of the company planned
to attack him while their feet of armed
s-ternwheelers and launches cut off his re.
treat from Bida by patroling the Niger"
This plan The Times pronounces as
daring and subject to many chances, but
1t added, if it succeeded it would effect
ually break the most dangerous and the
most dangerous and the most treaoher-
Gus dependent Mahommedan power with
in the sphere Of the Royal Niger company.