| Show IN AFRICA A special to the denver news relates the following horrible incidents from the dark continent Contine the portuguese ee settlements on the west coast of africa are in a state leste of horrible upheaval and riot the french flag floats over the butchered remains of the portuguese ee officers ficere of the latest advices advises from this portion of the west coast known as portuguese guinea tell tales of horrible atrocities on the part of the natives these do not stop short of cannibalism and the drinking of huge draughts of steaming human blood on the island of blesso but a few leagues leagued distant from the main land the rebel natives in number have swept the portuguese forces before them into theses the sea A carnival of blood and riot is now in progress on this island which it will take a large and well drilled force to quell the portuguese administration here as on the main land has been growing more unpopular for months the natives wen restive and inflammable secret agents from both france and england of the slave driving stamp are charged with blowing the embers of disaffection into the flames of mutiny about two weeks ago in the period of the full moon the fetich men held a grand dance of the three tribes in habiting hariting ha biting the island HIM in the frenzy induced by these weird ceremonies a portuguese officer who was present as a witness for amusement was hurled burled into the sacred ring before the chant closed a dozen knives were sheathed in his heart the garrison was raised by a wild alarm at 8 in the morning by the hyena like clamor of the crazy throngs tb reinforcements from the friendly natives of the assegai tribe were hastily summoned about regular troops comprising the sole european military on the island were thrown ou out t and came the mad devils dancing around the fire A terrible fight followed and the portuguese withdrew badly beaten dragging the mutilated remains of thirty killed having once tasted blood the dusky rebels howled like dogs around the closed stockade composing the exterior defense of the fort the bodies some m dead others only dying of the unfortunate portuguese including one officer were impaled on huge stakes and the scent of roasting human flesh was borne on the westerly wind to the dismay of men in the garrison the frightful orgies continued day by day the beleaguered beleaguer ed forces were afraid to stir beyond the breast works all the isolated buildings of the europeans on the island were burned to the ground and the fleeing occupants struck down end and mutilated DRANK HUMAN HITMAN BLOOD the leaders of the bloody uprising increased the madness of the frenzied murderers by drawing off the blood of their victims and sending the steaming bowl around the circles which kept fedt up the war dances without intermission day and night frenchmen of whom some fifty on the island were treated with respect by the mutinous and the french nag flag floats over their villages the garrison having received the assistance of a body of 2000 friendly natives assayed to quell the mutiny at a blow and deployed all their fore forces A second and still more horrible inhuman battle than the first followed the natives on oa both sides fought like starved tigers THE FIGHT every weapon known to aari african warfare opposed the rifles of the portuguese the opposing tribes number ing nearly in their straggling ranks were too strong for the government over of the native dative were brutally butchered five portuguese officers were slain w with ith forty of their men seventy one others were taken captive and reserved for torture the portuguese were completely routed route dand and driven back in great disorder to the end of their stand where the battered remnants with difficulty maintain themselves in temporary in trench ments the french nag flag was raised with ghoulish ceremonies over the abandoned fort tormenting THE CAPTIVES the captured soldiers were submitted to every torment of which human and savage ingenuity to is capable the raising of the flag was timed to the shrieks of the poor devils below wh wb 0 encountered the agonies of fire and mutilation red hot irons were ground into their flayed clayed bodies and their skulls were beaten into bags of small splinters of bone by the clubs of the infuriated mob A portuguese officer who escaped to the mainland declared that twenty years experience with the bar barbarities barties of the savages of the dark continent had never before exhibited to him such depths of hellish abandonment to the fumes of destructive insanity the island is now completely under the sway away of the infuriated rebels human bones strew it from end to bond nothing has been heard for days from the unfortunate at the western end whither the helpless remnant of the garrison withdrew it is believed that this body has been owe swept t g a way away by the same terrible besom besoin of are fire and destruction the settlements on the main land are following the example set by this great and terrible insurrection is the sequel of a long series of injustices and exactions on the part of the government it comes comee as a fearful retribution the government of lisbon is preparing with unexampled rapidity to send se several v eral regiments at once to the scene of successful rebellion and slaughter |
