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 i68 THE BENIN MASSACRE parts of West Africa (between
three and . four thousand being employed), stores, etc. etc., and
last, but not least, the nature of the country through which they had
to fight their way. As I have said before, the naval force was taken
from H.M. Ships Theseus, Forte, SL George, Phcebe, Philomel,
Barrosa, Widgeon, Magpie, and A lee to, whilst an additional force of
marines was sent out in the P. & O. S.S. Malacca, which was to act
as, and had been fitted up as hospital ship. The first two ships,
H.M.S. Theseus and Forte, came from the Mediterranean Squadron,
while the remainder belonged to the Cape Squadron. As I have
already mentioned, the Theseus, Forte, and St. George being too
large to come over the bar of the Forcados River, anchored off its
mouth, but the rest came up the Benin River through the Forcados
River and Nannai Creek. The main column was to advance on Benin
City by what is called the Ilogbo route, — Ilogbo being a Benin
village on the Ilogi Creek and supposed to be only about twelve or
fourteen
 THE PUNITIVE EXPEDITION 169 miles from Benin City. The
distance turned out to be about twenty-two miles. The Ilogi Creek is
the creek from which the Benin City people used to get their water,
and at that place was called the Ikpoba Creek. Unfortunately for the
expedition, it soon got too shallow and full of snags and obstructions
to allow of any steam-launches or boats going up it, and being of
any use to the marching column. To reach Ilogbo the force landed at
a place called Warrigi, a few miles below Sapele on the Benin River,
and marched about seven miles across to Ciri, a friendly village on
one side of the Ilogi Creek and about one mile below Ilogbo. When
the advance began it had been the Admiral's intention to throw a
wire suspension bridge across the Ilogi Creek, but unfortunately the
bridge could not be used owing to swamps. The Protectorate troops
arrived at Ciri about the 4th of February, and started cutting a road
back to Warrigi, while a party of carriers, with the help of some
bluejackets, began the road from the other end, and a very good
road was ready for 12
 I70 THE BENIN MASSACRE the Admiral's inspection when
he came to visit Ciri on the 9th February. Meanwhile there was a lot
of work going on at Warrigi organising the great number of carriers
that were to accompany the expedition. These men came from
Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, and some, of course, were
supplied by the Jakri Chiefs of the Benin River, and belonged to
many and various tribes of West Africa. In addition there was a force
of some hundred or more scouts raised in Lagos by Mr. Turner, a
travelling commissioner of the Niger Coast Protectorate, and
officered by him and Lieutenant Erskine, R.N. They looked a very
brave sight in red shirts and fezes, and I believe did very fairly well
afterwards, especially considering that it had only been possible to
give them a very few days' drill. On the loth February the remainder
of the bluejackets and marines forming the main column landed at
Warrigi, and marched across to Ciri the next day, so that the
advance on Benin City began on the 12th February. The Protectorate
Force was under the command of
 THE PUNITIVE EXPEDITION 171 Lieutenant - Colonel Bruce
Hamilton of the East Yorkshire Regiment, who had been sent out by
the War Office with the following special service officers, Major
Langdon, A.S.C., as second in command. Captains Walker, Scottish
Rifles, and O'Shee, R.E. The officers actually belonging to the Force
present were Major Searle, the permanent second in command,
Captains Ringer Koe, late of the Royal Irish, Carter of the Black
Watch, Lieutenant Cockburn of the Queen's Bays, and Lieutenant
Daniels, a native officer, and as plucky as any white man. Before the
main column advanced two flanking columns had been sent by the
Admiral for the purpose of drawing away the enemy's attention from
the main attack, and also to try and stop any fugitives escaping from
Benin City. Unfortunately they were not successful in stopping the
King and his Juju men when they fled. One of these columns went
up the Jamieson River under the command of Captain M'GiU, R.N.,
and the other, under Captain O'Callaghan, R.N., went up the Gwatto
Creek.
 172 THE BENIN MASSACRE Captain M 'Gill's force, which
was made up from men of the Phcebe^ Magpie, and Alecto^
proceeded up the Jamieson River as far as Sapobah, landed there
and marched to a place some four miles north of Sapobah w|iere
there were cross-roads from Benin City. There they built a stockade.
On the nth February this stockade was attacked by the Benin men
from the dense bush which surrounded it, and Lieutenant-
Commander Pritchard of the Alecto and one bluejacket were killed.
After this the stockade was reinforced and strengthened. The Benin
men again attacked on the 20th, but, as they did not seem to care
about coming to close quarters, there were no casualties. However,
the same day they attacked a column proceeding back to Sapobah,
and killed one marine and wounded two others. Captain M 'Gill's
column returned to Warrigi on the 24th February; having previously
burnt the stockade. This, of course, was after Benin City had been
taken, and when the naval force was leaving the country. The men
forming the Gwatto column, under
 THE PUNITIVE EXPEDITION 173 Captain 0*CaIIaghan,
came from the Philomel^ Barrosa, and Widgeon. On the loth
February Captain O'Callaghan burnt GilH-GiUi, the frontier Benin City
village on that side, and then proceeded on to Gwatto. After
searching the bush with volleys and some rounds from a quick-firing
gun^ Captain O'Callaghan landed with a force of about eighty men.
While they were engaged in burning the town they were attacked by
a strong force of Benin men, who fought most pluckily from the bush
for nearly an hour, although a number of them were seen to fall.
Then they had had about enough of it, and retired. Captain
O'Callaghan having blown up two big houses with gun-cotton and
burnt the remainder of the town, then retired to his boats at the
water-side without being attacked again. None of the force were
killed, but Lieutenant - Commander Hunt of the Widgeon and two
bluejackets were severely wounded, whilst Captain 0*Callaghan
himself and some others were slightly wounded. On the 14th
February the column went back to Gilli-Gilli, where they made a
zereba.
 174 THE BENIN MASSACRE However, being reinforced, they
advanced again to Gwatto once more and occupied it. For two days
the Benin men attacked them from the bush, but with little success,
as only three men were slightly wounded, whilst the Benis lost
several, and eventually never attacked at all after the i8th. On the 25
th February, a company of the Protectorate Force, under Captain
Gallwey, D.S.O., arrived at Gwatto from Benin City without having
been once attacked, which showed that the taking of Benin City had
a great effect on the Benis. On the way down. Captain Gallwey came
across the scene of the massacre of our expedition, and buried the
remains of our dear comrades that he found there, reading the
Funeral Service over them.* Captain O'Callaghan embarked his
force, and left Gwatto on the 27 th February. To return to the main
column : but before starting an account of the march and taking ^
An iron cross is to be placed here to the memory of all those poor
fellows who lost their lives in the expedition, as well as a tablet in
the new church at Old Calabar.
 THE PUNITIVE EXPEDITION 175 of Benin City, it may be as
well to explain that this column had to fight its way through twenty-
two miles of dense bush country, along a narrow uncleared path that
only admitted of marching single file, and almost unceasingly
attacked by an unseen enemy, who used to creep up within twenty
yards of the path before firing. Add to this no water to be found on
the march and the excessive heat of the country, and some idea can
be conceived of the work the column had to do. Of course the
Admiral, now Sir Harry Rawson, K.C.B., w^as in supreme command,
and the ConsulGeneral of the Protectorate, now Sir Ralph Moor,
K.C.M.G., accompanied him. The advance on Ilogbo began at
daylight on the 1 2th February, and owing to the impossibility of
using the wire suspension bridge, on account of the swamps
opposite Ilogbo, the force had to be conveyed by water* Though
others came up later, there was only one steam-launch at Ilogbo at
the commencement of the attack, which towed two surf-boats and
some canoes. This was worked by that
 176 THE BENIN MASSACRE indefatigable officer Captain
Child, R.N., Superintendent of the Marine Department of the
Protectorate. Owing to these circumstances only a comparatively
small number of men could be taken to Ilogbo at one time, and
Captain Child and his launch were at work almost continuously for
two days. The first detachment to start were one company of
bluejackets and two companies of the Protectorate troops, under
Colonel Bruce Hamilton, who commanded the advance-guard the
whole way to Benin City. As soon as this detachment landed they
were at once attacked by the Benis from the bush, and Captain Koe
of the Protectorate Force was severely wounded, and Lieutenant
Daniels, the native officer, and one private of the Force slightly
wounded. As the successive detachments arrived. Colonel Hamilton
pushed on, driving the enemy back, and soon occupied the Benin
village of Ilogbo, which, as usual, was some distance away from the
landing-place, about one thousand yards. The 1 3th February was
occupied in getting over the whole of the column^ with its supplies
 THE PUNITIVE EXPEDITION 177 and water. The advance-
guard started off again at daybreak on the 14th, and after
proceeding some distance, met with a strong resistance from the
enemy until they reached a place where there were cross-roads, and
where the enemy had apparently made their main camp. This day
the Protectorate Force had one company sergeant-major and two
privates severely wounded From Ilogbo as far as a place called
Agagi, the enemy had cut a path in the bush parallel to the main
path, to be used as an ambush path. They evidently were under the
impression that our force would get no farther than Agagi, as the
ambush path ceased there. This ambush path was an excellent thing
for our Force, as it enabled two columns to proceed at the same
time, and only ' necessitated the guarding of one flank by each
column. On the 15th February the advance-guard did not start till
noon, but soon after starting they were again attacked from both
sides, the attack gradually extending the whole length of the
column. This went on till they reached
 178 THE BENIN MASSACRE the enem/s camp at Agagi
village soon after three o'clock p.m. Here the Force had another
private killed, and some of the scouts and carriers were wounded. It
had been expected that some water would be found at Agagi, but all
the wells were found to be dry, so now every drop of water had to
be brought up from Ilogbo, some ten miles away. In consequence of
this the Admiral decided to leave the Second Division of the Naval
Brigade at Cross Roads Camp, while he with the advance-guard and
First Division of the Naval Brigade made a dash on Benin City. This
flying column were to take with them the necessary ammunition,
four days' provisions and three days' water (at the rate of two quarts
for each officer or man and one quart for each carrier per day), — a
terribly small quantity considering the work to be done and the
excessive heat. However, it was all that could be allowed. The
advance-guard halted at Agagi on the 1 6th February, which place
the Admiral with the Consul-General and First Division Naval
 THE PUNITIVE EXPEDITION 179 Brigade reached on the
afternoon of that date. This flying column started again, at daybreak
on the 17th, and only reached another village called Awoko, seven
miles off, about two o'clock p,m., having had a running fight nearly
all the way and taken en route three camps of the enemy and one
village. Luckily the casualties this day were small ; one scout killed,
one scout and one carrier severely wounded (the carrier died next
day), and one bluejacket slightly wounded. On the 1 8th February
the column started for its final dash on Benin City, now only eight
miles off. As soon as the advance-guard started they were met with
a heavy fire from tlie back, and this continued more or less the
whole day. About 10.30 a.m., Chief Petty Officer Ansell of the Navy
was shot through the head from a distance about six yards off, and
killed at once. About i. p.m. the column came across a stockade
which commanded a narrow causeway with a deep ravine on each
side and had a few guns in it. This stockade was immediately taken
and blown up with gun 
 i8o THE BENIN MASSACRE cotton. About three hundred
yards farther on a small village was reached, and as Benin City was
reported as being near, some shells from the seven-pounders and
rockets were fired in the direction the city was supposed to be. So
good was the direction that next day some of the rocket-heads and
the effects of the explosion of the shells were found in the city close
to the King's Compound. I was also told by an officer who was
present that it was reported that the King and his Juju men had
actually remained in Benin City up to this time, but that a rocket
coming fairly near them made them decide to quit. And quit they
did, worse luck. About one and a half miles from Benin City the
column had thejr first experience of the sights of Benin City, for they
came across two human sacrifices in the path, made most probably
as Juju to stop the white men from entering the city. The wretched
beings had had their arms tied behind their backs, their mouths
gagged with pieces of stick, and had then been cut down and across
their chests and
 THE PUNITIVE EXPEDITION i8i stomachs, so that their
entrails were hanging out Some distance after this the bush path
opened up into a broad road leading to the city, which was only
about a thousand yards away now. Here the enemy made a
determined stand, and here for the first time were any of them seen
— a party of them actually trying to charge the head of the column
as it arrived at the open broad road. On arriving at the broad road
the advance-guard, consisting of the Protectorate Force, bluejackets
from the Sf. GeorgCy and the marine battalion, formed into square.
As the square advanced it was met with a tremendously hot fire
from both sides, and it was during this time that poor Captain Byrne,
R.M.L. I., who only reached England to die from the effect of his
wounds, was hit badly. Here also Dr. Fyfe, R.N., who had been
attending to Captain Byrne, was killed, also several marines. The
enemy took every advantage of their cover from the bush, and
sfeme of them actually climbed trees to enable them to
 i82 THE BENIN MASSACRE get a better chance of firing at
the column. However, some of the officers of the Force made capital
"rook - shooting," and killed several of the enemy in the trees. The
enemy also had several old cannon firing from the direction of what
was afterwards found to be the King's house. Two hundred yards
from the city the column broke into a cheer and charged ; the
enemy fled, and Benin City was taken about two o'clock p.m. After
six days' hard marching and fighting in the most extreme heat the
men were naturally much exhausted. The King's Compound was
occupied by the troops for the night, and the rearguard, which had
been left on the bush path, was brought up. Water was also issued
to the men, leaving only one quart per man as a reserve. The
casualties this day had been very heavy. Dr. Fyfe, R.N., Chief Petty
Officer Ansell, R.N., and two marines had been killed; Captain Byrne,
R.M.L.I., eight of the Naval Brigade and marines, three of the
Protectorate Force, one scout, one native interpreter, and six
 THE PUNITIVE EXPEDITION 183 carriers seriously
wounded, and six of the Naval Brigade slightly wounded. I believe,
also, that some of the officers were slightly wounded, but being only
hit by pellets, did not return themselves as so. Major Searle of the
Protectorate Force also had a narrow escape, as he twice got bullets
through his helmet while working the Force seven-pounders. On the
19th February two-thirds of the column with all the carriers were
sent off to get water. They found the Ikpoba Creek (called the Ilogi
Creek farther down) some two miles off, from which a plentiful
supply was obtained. In fact, it was from this Creek the inhabitants
of Benin City used to get all their water. Nearly all thie boxes and
stores of our unfortunate expedition were found almost intact in the
King's Palace, but unluckily were all burned by a fire which broke out
on the 21st February and burned most of the town. In this fire the
house used for a hospital was burned, but, thanks to the
promptitude of Captain Campbell, R.N., all the wounded and sick
were got out safely.
 i84 THE BENIN MASSACRE Many of the officers of the
expedition lost all their kits in this fire. The Naval Brigade was to
have left Benin for their ships on the 20th February, but as the
Protectorate Force, who were to remain in Benin, were short of
ammunition and stores, Admiral Rawson decided to remain till the
22nd. The whole Force was engaged for the remainder of the 19th,
20th, and 21st February, in clearing the town as much as possible,
making a defensible camp for the Protectorate Force, and destroying
chiefs' houses, sacrificial and crucifixion trees, and the whole of the
Juju houses. On the 19th February three of the Jakri carriers of our
ill-fated expedition came in from the bush terribly mutilated. They
reported that as our troops approached the city all the other
wretched carriers of our expedition who had been brought there
alive were at oncie killed, but that no white men had been brought
there. All had been killed at the massacre. One of poor Mr. Gordon's
boys was also found alive at the bottom of one
 THE PUNtTlVE EXPEDITION it$ of the deep pits amongst a
lot of dead bodied. Six Accra mert from the Gold Coast also came in
from the bush heavily ironed. They had been captured while they
were collecting rubber in the Mahin Country to the north of Benin
City. On the 2ist February k carrier column, escorted by men of the
Naval Brigade, arrived with Stores and ammunition. The whole of
the Naval Brigade left Benin City on the 22 nd February, and arrived
at Warrigi on the 24th, meeting with no more opposition ; the
flanking columns also returned sboti afterwards, and the whole
embarked on theif ships on the 27th. This ended the Punitive
Expedition. Though they did not suffer much at the time, one regrets
extremely to hear that the Naval Brigade suffered badly from fever
and malaria afterwards, the Cape Squadron having a very heavy
sick-list from these causes, including the Admiral. I suppose some
short description of the horrors of Benin City must be given, though
they are almost too dreadful to be described. 13
 i86 THE BENIN MASSACRE Benin City was a large rambling
town divided by a broad avenue, on the south side of which were
the King's and big Chiefs' Compounds^ and on the north those of
the lesser Chiefs and people. All these houses were built of red mud
and thatched with palm leaves, part of the King's own house and the
Palaver House having iron roofs. In the King's part of the town were
his own house and those of his own people, the Palaver House, Juju
houses, and their Compounds, together with several old ruined
houses where former kings and chiefs were supposed to be buried.
Close to the King's house were seven large Juju Compounds, each
two to three acres in extent, in which most of the sacrifices were
performed, and in which the people used to sit while the priest
performed the sacrifices. These were large grassy enclosures,
surrounded by mud walls. At one end of each, under a roof, were
the sacrificial altars, on which were placed the gods — carved ivory
tusks, standing upright, on hideous bronze heads. In front
 THE PUNITIVE EXPEDITION 187 of each ivory god was a
small earthen mound on which the wretched victim's forehead was
placed. On the altars were several rudelycarved maces for killing the
unfortunate victims. When the expedition took Benin City they found
these altars covered with streams of dried human blood, the stench
of which was too awful, the whole grass portion of the Compounds
simply reeking with It In the corners of these Compounds huge pits,
40 to 50 feet deep, were found filled with human bodies, dead and
dying, and a few wretched captives were rescued alive. The Palaver
House, which was about 100 feet long and about 50 or 60 feet
broad, had an iron roof over the side walls but was open to the air in
the middle. The doors were covered with embossed brass. On the
roof on one side was a huge bronze snakb with a large head, and in
the centre of the yard a bronze crocodile's head. The King's house
was much the same. Amongst its decorations
 i88 THE BENIN MASSACRE were several square patches of
glass let into the beams over the King's bed. Outside, in the open
space, the state of things was almost more frightful than in the Juju
Compounds — everywhere sacrificial tree§ on which were the
corpses of the latest victims — everywhere, on each path, were
newly-sacrificed corpses. On the principal sacrificial tree facing the
main gate of the King's Compound there were two crucified bodies,
at the foot of the tree seventeen newly-decapitated bodies, and
forty-three more in various stages of decomposition. On another tree
a wretched woman was found crucified, while at its foot were four
more decapitated bodies. To the westward of the King's house was a
large open space, about 300 yards in lengtfi, simply covered with the
remains of some hundreds of human sacrifices in all stages of
decomposition. The same eights were met with all over the city.
Such was the state of Benin City, well named the City of Blood, on
the i8th January 1897. Such had been the state of the city for years,
apd it was by trying to see if he couldn't put
 THE PUNITIVE EXPEDITION 189 a stop to such a state of
things by peaceful measures, first of all, that poor Phillips and all our
dear comrades lost their lives. In conclusion, I should like to quote
an extract from a letter of a comrade of -the late Mr. Phillips : — *' It
was the disiaster which befell, on 4th January, the ill-fated pacific
mission, headed by Mr. Phillips, which led to the despatch of an
armed expedition under Admiral Rawson, the members of which
displaying gallantry and endurance beyond all praise, successfully
accomplished its object and drove the monster from his throne and
country. " The loss which the British nation has sustained during the
last sixty years, through the deaths of so many brave soldiers,
bluejackets, and civilians in the glorious work of rescuing the native
races in West Africa from the horrors of human sacrifice,
cannibalism, and the tortures of fetish worship, must ever be a
matter of deep regret and sadness to all ; but it cannot fail to make
us proud of our countrymen who have nobly and courageously done
 I90 THE BENIN MASSACRE their duty with the greatest
enthusiasm, undergoing hardship and privation inseparable from the
trying climate of the West African Coast, and exhibiting in their
conduct an entire disregard of personal danger." THE END
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