FRIGHTENED TIPPO TIB.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11739, 12 September 1890, Page 2

FRIGHTENED TIPPO TIB.

. -♦" ' So Major Wissman has reached Cairo. The crWo dispatches somewhat pompously descridehimas " Germany's Commissioner to East Africa," and such I believe, is his office, says a writer in tho New York Star, but those who know him tell me that ho is the maddest sort of ■ a dashing cavalier, the type of the fighting German. He once shocked ptaid old Tippo Tib out of his five Arabic senses. It happened in this wise: Tippo Tib and Wissman were travelling through a hostile country, the former, as usual, accompanied by his harem. Now, for anyone to pnaetrate into the harem even amid the informal hurry of a Central Afrinan journey is a mortal offence. Wissman, however, cared naught for this, and accordingly early one morning, after a night of alarms, caused by the presence of hostile savages on the opposite bank of the river upon which they were camped. Wissman suddenly pierced the walls of Tippoo Tib's tent, torch in hand, imploring the Arab leader to advance and attack the enemy. Then, once assured that the Arabs would follow, Wissman forded the stream alone, and entered the hostile village. When the Arabs reached the opposite bank they found Wissman popping away with his repeating rifle at any black savages who dared to show themselves. j !