 German officers were ordered to help enemies of the Wahehe and encircle Mkwawa (The M refers to a single person in Swahili).Lieutenant Tom von Prince, in early 1893, with Bauer and Wynecken, was able to offer the help requested by Merere II, promising to restore Merere to his homeland if he guarded Uhehe's western border against Mkwawa.It still, however, took until the end of 1896 before Mkwawa was defeated in his capital, Iringa, was made an 'outlaw' and reduced to waging guerrilla war, and finally fled south and died years later (Mkwawa didn't committed suicide as many scholars reported.elders from the tribe provided the evidence that his death was faked by Germans to grolify their years of loss and that the skull sent to german wasn't Mkwawa's)