The English also have suffered a repulse in Eastern Africa..
Commissioner Johnston, aided by a hundred Sikhs under Captain Maguire, and some Negro police, has been attacking the slave-stealers on the south side of Lake Nyassa with great' success. The Arab dealers have therefore made a great effort, and in a fight on the border of the lake, the details of which are variously reported, the British lost Captain Maguire, the master of the Domira ' steamer, a chief engineer, and a doctor,. besides three men. According to one account, Captain Maguire was drowned, and the officers on the steamer allured on shore and murdered ; but according to another, the Arabs had attacked the town of Makanjira, the ‘Domira,' defended it, and the fighting was fair. In any case, reinforcements must be sent up from Zanzibar, as a British repulse of any sort will throw all Nyassaland into commotion.
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