FOUNDING THE PROTECTORATE 
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A SIKH SERGEANT-MAJOR OF THE BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA CONTINGENT 
started for Mlanje where I arranged to rendezvous with Major Edwards. 
We made very careful preparations and suddenly fell on Matipwiri, travelling 
all night over the distance which separated his principal town from Fort 
Lister. His men made but a feeble stand and Matipwiri and his brother 
Kumtiramanja 1 fled to Tundu hill, where they made their last stand. From 
this position they were driven off by Captain the Hon. W. E. Cavendish 
and Lieut. Coape-Smith, and large supplies of war material were abandoned 
1 The more powerful chief of the two. 
