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Updated: June 28, 2025
Like many great soldiers, Lettow is singularly careless in his dress; and the tale is told at Moschi of a young German officer who stole a day's leave and discussed with a stranger at a shop window the chances of the ubiquitous Lettow arriving to spoil his afternoon.
Going to my Lord's I met with Mr. Shepley, and so he and I to the Sun, and I did give him a morning draft of Muscadine. 'Vinum muscatum quod moschi odorem referat. "Quaffed off the muscadel, and threw the sops All in the sexton's face." Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, act iii. And so to see my Lord's picture at De Cretz, and he says it is very like him, and I say so too.
South of the more eastern Nairi is the country of Muzra mountain tract well peopled and full of castles, probably the region about Amadiyeh and Rowandiz. Adjoining Muzr to the east or north-east, are the Quwanu or Comani, who are among the most powerful of Assyria's neighbors, being able, like the Moschi, to bring into the field an army of 20,000 men.
"Vinum muscatum quod moschi odorem referat, propter dulcedinem, for the sweetnesse and smell it resembles muske," &c. Sc. trifling fellow, noodle. The blades from Bilboa in Spain were esteem'd as highly as those of Toledo manufacture. MS. two. "Striker" is a cant term for a losel, a wencher. "Mew" is a falconer's term for the place where a hawk is confined.
Landing at Tanga on the 4th, it was met by a German force, superior in the art of bush fighting if not in numbers which hurried down from Moschi, and was compelled to re-embark with a loss of 800 casualties.
Van Deventer was successful, and at Moschi blocked the Germans' retreat westwards; they managed, however, to slip away south-eastwards by Lake Jipe, but the Kilimanjaro massif had been cleared, and Smuts established his headquarters at Moschi.
The mountain tribes of Zagros, Taurus, and Niphates, Medes, Armaenians, Tibarini, Moschi, etc., were probably far braver men and far better soldiers than the levies of Egypt, Susiana, and Babylon.
Burning by fever by day, chilled by tropic dews at night, these poor devils had been harried and kicked and cursed and ill-used by Askaris and insulted by native porters all that long retreat from Moschi to Kissaki and beyond. No "machelas" for them if they were ill, no native hammocks to carry them on when their poor brains cried out against the malaria that struck them down in the noonday sun.
Other minor tribes in this region, neighbors of the Armenians and Cappadocians, but more remote from Media, were the Ibenans, the Colchians, the Moschi, the Tibareni, the Mares the Macrones, and the Mosynoeci.
They were not above kidnapping men, women, and children in one country and selling them into another; besides which they seem to have frequented regularly the principal slave marts of the time. They bought such Jews as were taken captive and sold into slavery by the neighbouring nations, and they looked to the Moschi and Tibareni for a constant supply of the commodity from the Black Sea region.
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