CAPTURE OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN WEST AFRICA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2205, 26 August 1886, Page 2

CAPTURE OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN WEST AFRICA.

Thk West African steamer 13»nin, which arrived at Liverpool last week, brings particulars from Akasta of the capture by flome of the natives on the Xiprer river of Mr Jatues Young, the representative on the coast of an English trading hou*e. Mr Young, it appeals, was leturning from a business journey up the Xitfor, when lio wa*. Reued sit 'Mbnlla bv a number of native*, who carried him off into the intenoi. On tho news becoming known at Ak.issa a number of KnglUh trader-* pioceeded to 'Mba.Ua, summoned a meeting ot the chiefs there, and dem.Mjded ;»n expl.iiitition of the o itragc Tlie ch.efs that the capture w.ift m.ide, not a> tlk- result of .m\ ill feeling towards either Mr Youni^ <>i hi-< om ployers, but hiinply for the puipox' of detaining him as a hostage for the ri'leise of tliree n.itive>, wlio ueie ai rested by the agents of the Xation.il Afucau Company at Akassa. They deoliued all otfei-. of laiiv.m, and stated that the only conditions on ivhich they would >,, r ive l>icl< Mr Yountf were the release of then three countrymen. (Jreat indignation was felt at Ak^«ii, and the Eiitflwi Cunsul w is to be called upon to mteifeie.

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