Crossword-Solution: YAOS 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Between 1891 and 1895 a long struggle continued, between the British authorities on the one hand and the Arabs and Mahommedan Yaos on the other, regarding the suppression of the slave trade.

Colonel Willcocks's force was increased by Yaos and a few Sikhs from Central Africa to a total of 3368 natives, with 134 British officers and 35 British non-commissioned officers.

The Yaos in like manner give them the prefix _Che_ (_Che Sungula_, the Rabbit, _Che Likoswe_, the Rat, etc.), which, though usually translated "Mr.," is of common gender and used quite as often in addressing women as men.

Then they _were_ attacked after all! A German officer was leading a force of _askaris_ of the Imperial African Rifles against them—those terrible Yaos and Swahilis whom the Germans had disciplined into a splendid army, and whom they permitted to loot and to slaughter after a successful fight.

Indeed to Bertram it was food for much thought that in that tiny _boma_ in a tropical African swamp, Anglo-Indians, Englishmen, Colonials, Arabs, Yaos, Swahilis, Gurkhas, Rajputs, Sikhs, Marathas, Punjabis, Pathans, Soudanese, Nubians, Bengalis, Goanese, and a mob of assorted _shenzis_ of the primeval jungle, should be laying down their lives because, in distant Berlin, a hare-brained Kaiser could not control a crowd of greedy and swollen-headed military aristocrats.