The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-12

help one another in tho suppression oil
heather enemies; he was strong In the faith
but weak In arms and the sinews OF war.
Certain ungodly Egyptians and others OF his
neiRhbors wero giving him much annoyance
and making mocksry OF the power Of .
Christian potentats. He begged. therefore.
that the Queen would come to his aid.
Capt. Cameron returned to his post In
January. 1854 The Kings letter had been
piseonholed at the Foreign once. and no an
swer for II had evsr been considered. Five
days after Cameron's return Theodore sent for
| him and asked why no reply had been made to
his letter to his colleague. the Chrlstian Queen
! OF Great Britain. Poor Cameron couldn't very
| well explain. Then the King wanted to know
why the Consul. instead Of coming straight to
Abyssinia from England, had turned aside to
visit In the heather Soudnn. without giving
the Consul chance to eIplain, the King an
! nounced that he was convinced that English
| Christianity was sham. and that he intended
to punish tho Queen for her insolcnce. He
siszed all foreigners 10 his dominions and i'm
| prlsonsd them. including Cameron. and tor
| tured some OF them.
! The news Of this outrage aroused tho great
est resentment in Great Britain. The Foreign
ONCE wrote enough letters to Theodore to sat
isiy the most ar4ent correspondent. In reply
| to one Of them Theodore told the Queen that
he wanted men and machinery with which he
| could make gunnowder AMI guns" The
skilled artisans, lie did not let til. prisoners
! go. but set up an arsenal. At last Sir Robert
Maprr was ordered to taso an eIpsdition 10
| Magdaln, ThsedOres seat OF government. to
| rescue his prisoners and put down the mighty
| one from his seat.
Tho expedition was ono Of England,s most
costly lessons in the necessity Tor good trans.
! poratl3n service In II $1,000 troops were I'D
| 400 miles from the coast over the mountains
| to Mngiala. IA the British army approached
! Theodore turned the prisoners loose telling
| them that ri. only reason for treating tham
an H srm my With u" which he oCald INIT Il. S had
not the mon or the money to 40 to England. he
| bringing England TO him. NJ. kassnu. one of
| IN. prisoners. told him that Napier's army
"Ict them cons one said Theodore. still nur.-
Ing his wrath asH'nst tn. Queen 'of her deiIn;
beat the call ma woman. too"
fortress on the mountain top. His men had
ihres-lourths OF his army was in revolt when
y WERE F Fefs.d 0 .HsTs .e sp
o, tn. way back to !hs vsTy pinnacls
fpdS o HH% IL reachns The orsr-s Which
surrendered on April 10. 1887. The British
used the SNYDER rinss tor the frat time The
Roberts q the. Fourth Infantry. King T6.odor.
inssisS. r.. fsiInr. ., Icrd g John a Russell to
snswer King Th.odor.,s first letter cost her
haJsstJ's Government $lo.O0o.oOo.
LONG sTEuGoLx or THE MAoRIs.
The Maori war In New Zealand began In
over tho purchase OF and from Il. natives,
and tho right Of the native chiefs to sell land
own"d in common by the tribes was an old
US phd %.s. de OF n:
north island. was one whers the qurs-
,on Vas Ea:,, GonstGn.Iy S.%si.s irSiSp GGy.
%Tfis S sAS s.-.S S: n ts a.irs'
was ocSupsd ty ohi.t named Tetra SG and
some q his people. Terra elae,sd high
over over than %ifemu Ia ,nsi chief who OUT OUT
ranked r0ira. decla AIRED hat tho sale was void
Hing, knoTH IN Ensi,:hh h.,9ry az w KIng
Maori chiefs who had resolves TO resist English
colonization to the death. The league supplied
The Maoris were born GEhters They had
been using muskets against one another in
most Without fear. and their physique wa.
such that they seemed never TO learn the
made t I nomtnsily Christians, though thsy
found 1t not inconsistent with their new re-
lIgion to ho trnnp ha! cannibql feast. on "a.
were SIX engineers and ndsrfui tao
ticians. They had a combination OF marching
arm drill which they called war dance and
which was 40 terrifying that one Of the early
granted to the Maoris privileges which he had
dance.
The hEhtinr In Tarancki was monopolized
ing force was ,ounumeered by the Eng lsh
rom II. main sSrfI;on. and heat he W.
he .venSinS T British army S'' arrived tse
Msor!s had returned 70 the bush. EI.
H s@ TstH they H'2 md ns sf.
behind breastuorts. The MaorIs built
tssir d'veTSes IN thrsS rows Of haIn boo lenses.
the frat row until II had been carried by storm
and then di-creety dropped back 70 the second
as they eli N bed over the nr,t fence. The Bril-,
,sh neoR n. yer. LpToisunSIy a'Sss..d
the netting out OF punishment to the
Maori ill., sy uHdsrmin Ing whole stoetndo
anS WIN. ,.a SS sT S. % IedS
nnishsd ;he b.lsssured MasrIs had yiihdrrvn
70 another place equally well fortified Once
and mnars had Been al tfs hardss: fin nS' 81
The chief. qomn N s.ts to tho Psheta
bsr snI The sst :.T 10
chief viii gladly lend him men 10 help 10 dig
gng The tunnel tsp.ath our tort. Tho chic,
ssn.. q hpmor which qharao,.rizsd this reply
They had heaps OF fun In tho war. In II letter
from Wiremu Kingi to his m other. which was
intercepted during the war, sceurs this sI pros.
sion; We are happy. We cat the English
pebhles," meaning bullets. Tho native name
for Sir Duncan Cameron. who spent nfty-seycn
days in marching ffty-four miles along the
kracoast. avoiding the bush most scrupul ously
was "ihc Lame Ssagull."
Tho British force in New Zealand was in
creased until the nghtsrs Of tha native league
were outnumbersd ten to one. The Maori was
undIsmayei: In January. 1853. Gen. Cameron
surrounhsd 800 Naoris in a stockade at Oraku
They were without water; they were Taked by
artillery and small arm FIRE. n hand Rrenades
wsre ran"d In uIon them. They repulse Ave
assaults in thrse days. Con Cameron invited
them TO surrender with all tho honorS. They
sent back tho famous answer: "kswhsw-
hal tome. Rkc. ek6. aE6i" I've fight
right on. forever. forever foreverD Gen
aramsron asked them to send their women out.
They answered.; our women want TO fight as
much as we do" On the third day tho Haoris
charged out o' the enclosure at n dog trot
The column Jumped clean over one regiment
Of British Infantry that was lying in the rifle
PITS before the s'Ocknds One hundred and
nty 81 the 300 escaped into tho bush
The great fight NJ the war was that at the
Gate Pa .stoeEad-l. This was between two
s"hnps which amply protected tho Maoris'
HANKS The whole Maori garrison did not
eIual in mum bers The officers commissioned
and non comm lSSlonod. and the musicians Of