ruined, boats in the
harbor were sunk or captured, and the destruction wrought by the
British on the port was complete.

The capture of Bukoba was important to the British, for as a direct
result the Uganda borders were kept clear of the enemy for the greater
part of the summer of 1915.

The German town of Sphynxhaven on the eastern shore of Lake Nyassa was
attacked on May 30, 1915, by a British naval force under Lieutenant
Commander Dennistoun, supported by field artillery and a landing party
of King's African Rifles. During the sharp, short engagement that
followed the place was bombarded from the water, the enemy was driven
out, and great quantities of rifles, ammunition, and military stores
fell to the British.

The climatic conditions in the low-lying Nyassaland and Uganda borders
in the summertime caused the British soldiers more suffering and
deaths than their enemies. Insect pests like the tsetse fly swarm
around Lake Victoria Nyanza, while different fevers of peculiarly
malignant varieties lie in wait to attack the European. There is the
terrible sleeping sickness that spares neither white nor black race.
The great lake cannot be bathed in without danger for its abounds in
crocodiles and hippopotami.

Guerrilla warfare was kept up during most of the summer of 1915 along
the northeastern borders of Rhodesia and in Nyassaland. On June 28 the
Germans were driven off when they attacked in two bands on the Saisa
River, near Abercorn. A month later, having gathered 2,000 men, they
besieged the place for six days, when British reenforcements arriving
they were driven off. During these skirmishes and engagements the
Belgian troops were of great service to the British in defending the
frontier between Lake Mweru and Lake Tanganyika, and especially the
western shore of the latter lake.

It was in this summer of 1915, during the early days of July, that the
German cruiser, the _Koenigsberg_, met her end. Late in October of 1914
she was in shelter at a point some distance up the Rufiji River, where
the water was so shallow that a ship of ordinary draft could not
approach. When the British discovered the location of the cruiser they
sank a collier across the mouth of the river to prevent the German
boat from reaching the sea. The _Koenigsberg_, surrounded by forests
and thick jungle growth, was exactly located by British aircraft. On
July 4, 1914, Vice Admiral King Hall, commander in chief of the Cape
station, enter