From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile : an account of The German Central African expedition of 1910-1911 . y hundreds of his warriors, as is customaryin a friendly reception. The too-confiding Captaintook this as a sign of peaceable intentions, never sus-pecting treachery. The Massalits hurled themselvesupon the astonished Frenchmen, whose weapons werenot even loaded, and cut them to pieces, with theexception of a few Senegalese who escaped to bringnews of the disaster to Fort Lamy. A little later, the English explorer, Boyd Alexander,was travelling, in the face of warnings, through Wadaito
From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile : an account of The German Central African expedition of 1910-1911 . y hundreds of his warriors, as is customaryin a friendly reception. The too-confiding Captaintook this as a sign of peaceable intentions, never sus-pecting treachery. The Massalits hurled themselvesupon the astonished Frenchmen, whose weapons werenot even loaded, and cut them to pieces, with theexception of a few Senegalese who escaped to bringnews of the disaster to Fort Lamy. A little later, the English explorer, Boyd Alexander,was travelling, in the face of warnings, through Wadaito Darfur, when he was set upon near Abesher andmurdered. In order to avenge these misdeeds, Colonel Moll,Governor of the French Tchad district, led an expedi-tion in November 1910 against the Wadais and Mas-salits. On the 9th he was camping at Dorote, closeto the frontier between Wadai and Darfur. Earlyin the morning a French subaltern, who had goneout to collect wood, saw suspicious figures lurking inthe bush. He ran back to warn the Colonel, who atonce called his men to arms and formed them up
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