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apparently, not to give in to any terms which involved their accompanying 

 Colonel Macdonald. A misunderstanding unhappily arose in addition during 

 the parley at the Eldama Ravine between an officer on Colonel Macdonald's 

 staff and themselves, due, no doubt, to the inability to understand each 

 other's lanoruage. The Sudanese were ordered to surrender their arms, 

 and refused. Shots were fired over their heads, and they broke out into 

 open revolt, swinging round and starting back for the heart of Uganda, 

 resolved to do as much damage as possible on the way. They robbed 

 and looted stores, and finally, hy treachery, ohtained the surrender at Luba's 

 of the persons of Major Thruston and other Europeans. Major Thruston, 

 who with splendid heroism had deliberately entered the Sudanese lines 



l8l. STEAM-LAUNCH IlCTORI.l (XOW PLYIXU AUAIN i '> I II i: > i AN/ AJ 



for the purpose of reasoning with the mutineers and bringing them back to 

 their allegiance without bloodshed, was (with the engineer of the little steam- 

 launch Victoria, ]\Ir. Scott) shot under a tree outside Luba Fort. The 

 Government steam-launch Victoria was captured and partiall}' destroyed. 



The incidents which followed are too recent and well known to require 

 recapitulation. Colonel J. E. L. Macdonald, assisted by Mr. Jackson and 

 other officers and officials, and by members of the Church JMissionary 

 Society as non-combatants,* succeeded after dogged fighting, carried on 

 under the most difficult circumstances, in breaking the power of the 

 mutineers, and chasing them away from the settled districts of the 

 Uganda Protectorate. 



* Mr. G. L. Pilkington, B.A., C.M.S., was killed in attending to wounded men. 



