The Cameroon.
* The cable news gave us the information that the German Commissioner at Rio del Rey, Bight of Biafra, West Africa, and a German trader, together with a hundred natives, have been massacred in the hinterland through falling into an ambuscade. Germans have evidently been trying to explore the territory they hold in this portion of Africa, as the Rio del Rey is one of the principal rivers flowing into the Bight of Biafra. The position, is south and adjoining the Niger Protectorate the management of which has been lately assumed by the British Government. The Cameroon district derives its name from the Portuguese name " camaroo " a shrimp. The low mangrove swamps that clothes the banks of the river render the climate very trying to Europeans, but much of the interior is high-lying and healthy. The natives belong to the Bantu Group. The German flag was hoisted in 1884.
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Manawatu Herald, 17 October 1899, Page 3
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150The Cameroon. Manawatu Herald, 17 October 1899, Page 3
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