. British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi. Natural history. i3« BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA officers under the command of Lieut. Coape-Smith, who should proceed by a circuitous course northwards till they came opposite Mlozi's town, with the River Rukuru running in between. This march should be undertaken at night and the River Rukuru forded in the darkness, opposite the house-shaped hill, which eminence was to be seized and garrisoned by one division under Major Trollope. Lieut. Coape-Smith was then to pla
. British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi. Natural history. i3« BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA officers under the command of Lieut. Coape-Smith, who should proceed by a circuitous course northwards till they came opposite Mlozi's town, with the River Rukuru running in between. This march should be undertaken at night and the River Rukuru forded in the darkness, opposite the house-shaped hill, which eminence was to be seized and garrisoned by one division under Major Trollope. Lieut. Coape-Smith was then to place a section of his force under Lieut. Alston to guard the approach to the River Rukuru from Mlozi's town. A further division under Mr. Gordon Cumming was to pass round to the back of Mlozi's town and take up a position to the west of it. Major Trollope's force by occupying the house-shaped hill would command the pass through which the road to Kotakota passed, and thus be able to cut off Mlozi's retreat in that direction. Mr. Walter Gordon Cumming's force would be able to check his flight westward and Lieut. Alston prevent him from crossing the. , CHIEF OK THE NORTH NVASA ARAKS River Rukuru to the Tanganyika road. Having posted these three divisions in the darkness of the night Lieut. Coape - Smith was to return along the banks of the river to Kopakopa's, and meet me there at eight o'clock in the morning ; for I in the meantime should have started with the naval division and a force of Sikhs under Lieut, de Herries Smith and have attacked, and presumably mastered Kopakopa and Msalemu. Lieut. Coape-Smith accordingly left Karonga at eight o'clock at night on the 1st of December, and although it was raining cats and dogs and the night was pitch dark he carried out the whole of the operations entrusted to him without a single mistake or deviation, and punctually turned up at Kopakopa at eight o'clock next morning. I left at five o'clock in the morning of the 2nd of December
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