232 HISTORY OF THE PROTECTORATE TERRITORIES 



disaccord bet ween Cat h o]jcs__and_Prote st ants and t lie_jTn2^"^^"g pnmity of 

 the ex]3elled__ M_uhamma d an.s caused a l ax g<^ l'"^'^y "^ infl uent ial Baganda ^to 



desire__tlie_ establis h ment of__s ome kind of Knropean Erotectorat^. The 



French missionaries of Cardinal Lavigerie's mission were opposed to the 

 idea of a British Protectorate. They would (not unnaturally, seeing they 

 were Frenchmen) have preferred in some way to obtain French pjrotection 

 for Uganda, in the hope that France meant eventually to work her way 

 from French Congo round the north of the Congo P>ee State to Uganda 

 (a dream not so impossible when one remembers the actual achievements 

 of Marchand eight years later). Failing a French Protectorate, they would 

 have preferred to be under German political control, some of these Catholic 

 priests being of German or Alsatian nationality. 

 f Mwang a really did not want an y T^^imppp yi overlordshi)j at all. He had, 

 however, sent to INIr. Jackson a vague request for help, which reached the 

 former in Kavirondo at the end of 1889. ]Mr. Jackson replied, offering to 

 come if ]Mwanga would place his country under the company's protection. 

 Mwanga shilly-shallied, however, and Jackson went off to Mount Elgon. 

 Whilst he was absent Dr. Karl ^ters (a German traveller who had got 

 up an expedition to go in search of Emin Pasha, but who was really bent 

 on political adventures, and was a free lance) marched into Jackson's camp 

 in Kavirondoy(,was mistaken by Jackson's servants for an Englishman, and 

 therefore handed the letters which were awaiting Jackson's return. 

 Dr. Peters having opened and read these, determined to go himself to 

 Uganda and steal a niarch on Jackson, hoping in this way to forestall 

 England in UgandaJ ^Meantime the decisive struggle between the 

 Christians and ]Muhammadans in Uganda had taken place near Mengo, 

 and the young Muhammadan king, Kalema, was completely defeated, and 

 fled. Mwanga reinstated himself at Mengo in time to receive Karl Peters, 

 who, with the aid of the PVench priests, drew up a treaty which procured 

 for Germany a Protectorate over Uganda. This treaty, of course, was 

 disavowed by the German Government, and had no political effect. Mr. 

 Jackson arrived in Uganda in the early part of 1890, and although he 

 was not successful in concluding a treaty for the company with the king, 

 he left Mr. Gedge in Uganda with a number of armed men who might 

 be looked upon as a help to Mwanga in re[)elling the ^Muliammadans, 

 and an intimation to any unscrupulous person * that Uganda was already 

 in the purview of the British. 



Soon_aft£]:^rrived Captai n (now^Sir Fre derick) Lugard as the accredite d 



* By " unscrupulous " I do not imply blame on any attempt by a German to secure 

 a German Protectorate over Uganda — an enterprise quite as defensible as the similar 

 attempts of Englishmen. I only mean to animadvert on such conduct as the opening 

 and reading another man's correspondence. 



