Bismarck accepted lesser prizes, ranging from Cameroon to South West Africa[*11] – while Peters, broad-hipped, soft-skinned and pasty, sporting self-designed military gear and bearing an array of guns, tried to seize Uganda from the kabaka of Buganda, and Tanganyika from the sultan of Zanzibar. He was successful in Tanganyika, where as Reichskommissar, known as Mkono wa Damu – Bloodsmeared Man – he ruled murderously. When his favourite concubine slept with his manservant, he hanged both and liquidated their villages, shocking even the Germans, who recalled Hangman Peters and sent troops to
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