As to fighting out here, we hear that it is all nearly finished—al this way and not a scrap in prospect; without bombast and 80 on I am disappointed. The Germans are running south from their place we took two months ago called Gama, and we shall have nothing to do except sit tight and look after native soldiers in bush stations, These native soldiers teem to be alw scrapping among themselves and are utter children and need to be treated as such. I am learning some words of Hansa but don't think I.shall sweat! over it any. Woe saw twenty white German prisoners at Minna station just when they were being taken south to Lagon to be sent to England, and they looked fat and flourishing all of them; and four more pasted us on the way on the river three days ago, also going down south and so Home.
The native German soldiers are a funky crowd, so are ours, and in every scrap out here the white officers have to kick them to get them going at all. Still the Ge: man natives seem to be a hi worse and at Gama, for instance, they told their officers that if they did not surrender they would shoot them, so they had to cave in, rotten Tuck on them. Gama is the sort of capital of German Kameroons and was quite a strong place and we were lucky to get iv so easily. We are really just waiting until October, ie, until the dry season before just finishing things up. We stopped on the Apapa at Lorne, the capital of Togoland, by the way, and I
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