AN ADVENTURE IN AFRICA.

Colonist, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7814, 15 December 1893, Page 4

AN ADVENTURE IN AFRICA.

I?»BPATOHEa brought to, Liverpool by the as Yolta fjrom, the west coast o! Africa. give details ol. in extraordinary affair which took plape recently at .the Frenoh protectorate of A'Minoe.a'lt is. stated; that, ..as. a reaaU of aomediaaffeotion existing among the natives on the Assinee river, the Frenoh commander of the place, with about thirty Senegalese under hinv went upi the river with ft' view' to it.n By some means the 1 nativei '.-mage, them all prisoners, ,; and secured itfeir nrearrgs, bo that ; the* ,#ere practically i powerleaa'. » HOS th(i» Waj aeoooipluhed ;ii, n~bYa£ present Jtnoirn, but it is ; ooo jeo.turea ttii the pommandantand his followers were invited to » palavaij and that they were then ! Aqrrouadecl and overpowered. . Matters were looking uerioua for ihe prisoners, the^natives being in a very angry mood, when, a steam rafthob under command of Captain Walsh, aginiior a Liverpool timber firm, trading at Asßitte'e, happened to pass the. place on her wi^ii|tf * n in « F iT ?F« P*?*^ 11 <¥$$» 9 1 ? l%oing' Ihe i'anfidal cou<firton of affairs, lSWed*oa th«Tbank and opened fife on the natitea with a" repeating Several of the natives, were killed, and the test retreated to Bcelter. Captain Waleh and aome of the Kroomen who manned hia launch then made a. dash and Bucoeeded in liberating all the captives, whom he co'nvejed in aafety to Aarinee. 'He' then returned to the village with a stronger party, atVao&ed it, and cajJr tared it. Among the natives killed in the encounter was the chief at whose instigation the French were taken prisoners? Thegene-t* 'rat opinion was thai bat for the prompt aotion°of Captain Walsh tbe whole force (would have been maesaored by the natives."