HISTORY OF THE PROTECTOllATE TE1UUT01UE8 235 



no use whatever. Soon after reaching England he was attacked bv tyi)hoid 

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

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

 termination of liis mission, Colonel (now General Sir Henrv) Colvile liad 

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



acted as Conimissioner for the newlv created Uiranda Protectorate^ 



king 



a tt-eaty^_wkh_^Iwaii ga in 18 1)5 which laid the basis of our Protectorate 

 relatiiHiii_aith_Uganda proper. 



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

 civil wars of Uganda bv assisting the Muhammadaii faction. Wars between 



176. EX-KING KABAREGA IX THE (l-H'll 



CAPTURE BY LIEUTEXANT-COLOXEL EVATT IX I 

 WITH BAXDAGES OX HIS ARMS) 



\N UGAXD.\ CHIEF, THE KAKUXGIT.U (AFTER HIS 

 KABAREGA IS THE SEATED FIGURE 



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

 Sometimes Unyoro was tributary to Uganda, sometimes it formed the 

 nucleu-; of a kind of western empire, answering pretty much to the 

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

 predominant. W . the Britis' Protectorate was declared over Uganda, 

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

 rather threw ditheulties 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 who are most strenuous in the defence of native 

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

 bands of warriors to devastate Toro and Northern I'ganda, and had sliown 



