Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - "Leipzig" ya fara aiki na gaba a kasashen waje a ranar 14 ga Yuni don maye gurbin corvette. Sabon kwamandan rundunar, "KAdm" Karl August Deinhard, yana tafiya ne da kansa ta jirgin fasinja. "Leipzig" ya tsaya a Aden a ranar 16 ga Yuli, inda ta sauya "Bismarck" a matsayin jirgin ruwa na jirgin ruwa, kuma ya ci gaba zuwa Zanzibar, inda ta isa ranar 2 ga Agusta. A can, ta shiga cikin jirgin ruwa; kwamandan jirgin ruwa na karshe, "KzS" Franz Strauch yana aiki a matsayin kwamandan kwamitin na wucin gadi yayin da Deinhard ke kan hanya, don haka aka tura shi zuwa "Leipzig" kuma Hartog ya ɗauki matsayinsa a cikin "Olga". Deinhard ya isa ranar 31 ga watan Agusta kuma ya dauki kwamandan rundunar a Manda Bay, Kenya. A wannan lokacin, rundunar ta kunshi "Leipzig", "Olga", "Möwe", kuma daga 31 ga Disamba mai ba da kariya ba tare da kariya ba kuma daga 5 ga Janairu 1889 aviso. Squadron, wanda aka yi niyyar aiki a Kudancin Pacific, ya kasance a maimakon haka ya kasance daga Gabashin Gabashin Jamus saboda tawayen Abushiri.
, babban tawaye ga mulkin Jamus; wannan shi ne ainihin dalilin da ya sa aka aika da "Schwalbe" da "Pfeil" don ƙarfafa rundunar. Ayyukan da aka gudanar a Gabashin Afirka na Jamus sune mafi girma da kuma mafi tsawo na aikin jirgin ruwa na Jamus kafin yakin duniya na.