NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2835, 29 February 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

Shocking Massacre. , Roasted Alive, Eaten by Alligators, Mozambique, February 26, ~ Intelligence has been received here that a terrible outrage has been committed by a strong and well-armed body of Arabs, who attacked and overpowered- a number of native villages on the south-western shore of Lake Nyassa, The natives were attacked suddenly and many were struck down and mercilessly slaughtered on the spot. Others fled to the water and sought a hiding place in the reeds which fringe the shores of the lake. The work of massacre and rapine being over in the villages, the Arab marauders turned their attention to fugitives hiding in the rushes. Being unable to reach them from the land, the Arabs set fire to the reeds, and the unhappy villagers had to choose between being burned to death or devoured by the crocodiles which infest tlie waters of the lake on the one hand, and running the gauntlet between the spears of their enemies on the other. Many were seized by the alligators and drawn beneath the waters, while those who fled from these monsters and the flames were ruthlessly speared by the Arabs as they left the water. Inflamed by passion, the Arabs next turned their attention to the different.'. missions established by the Free Church of Scotland along the shores of the Lake and known collectively as Livingstonia. The mission houses were attacked and plundered, but it is stated that the Europeans engaged in the work escaped without suffering any bodily harm.