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no use whatever. Soon after reaching England he was attacked by typhoid 

 fever, and his system, weakened by the great hardships he had endured 

 in East Africa, caused him to fall a victim to this disease. Before the 

 termination of his mission, Colonel (now General Sir Henry) Colvile had 

 been sent out to assist him, and Colonel Colvile for more than a year 

 acted as Commissioner for the newly created Uganda Protectorate, making 

 a treaty with Mwanga in 1895 which laid the basis of our Protectorate 

 relations with Uganda proper. 



Kabarega, the king of Unyoro, had, as has been shown, taken part in the 

 civil wars of Uganda by assisting the Muhammadan faction. Wars between 



176. EX-KIXG KABAKEGA IX THE CUSTODY OF AN UGANDA CHIEF, THE KAKUNGULU (AFTER HIS 

 CAPTURE BY LIEUTENANT-COLONEL EVATT IN 1899 ; KABAKEGA IS THE SEATED FIGURE 

 WITH BANDAGES ON HIS ARMS) 



Unyoro and Uganda had occurred at intervals for a century or more. 

 Sometimes Unyoro was tributary to Uganda, sometimes it formed the 

 nucleus of a kind of western empire, answering pretty much to the 

 Western Province of to-day, throughout which the Urunyoro language is 

 [)redominant. When the British Protectorate was declared over Uganda, 

 it is to be feared that the Baganda chiefs, greedy for territory and spoil, 

 rather threw difficulties in the way of Kabarega coming to terms with the 

 British authorities. But, as a matter of fact, this native prince deserves 

 no pity, even from those wiio are most strenuous in the defence of native 

 races. Throughout his tenure of the throne of Unyoro he liad used his 

 bands of warriors to devastate Toro and Northern Uganda, and had shown 



