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hostility and greediness in dealing witli every European traveller whom 

 fate threw in his way. 



Colonel Colvile set himself to break Kabarega's power, and succeeded 

 in the main in doing so. The result of his campaigns was to plant the 

 British flag at Wadelai, on the White Nile (where, however, it was hauled 

 down again by the orders of the Bricish Government), and to hand over 

 to the Kingdom of Uganda large portions of Southern Unyoro. Colonel 

 Colvile established his administrative capital at Entebbe, twenty miles 

 south of Mengo. At first it was intended to erect the buildings at the 

 place named Entebbe, which had been surveyed for that purpose by the 

 late Colonel Vandeleur, who, as a lieutenant, accomplished most excellent 

 work at that period in making the first systematic survey of Uganda and 

 Unyoro. Later on a move w^as made farther down the peninsula towards 

 the open lake, and the site then selected was called Port Alice. For 

 reasons connected with the salubrity of the site a transfer is gradually 

 being made of the principal Government buildings back to Entebbe, two 

 miles to the north of Port Alice.* 



Fail ure of health obliged Colvile to return to Enjij ^Lnd, tlis pince as 



Commissione r was taken by Mr. E . J. L. Berkeley, who had been C qilsuI at 

 Zanzibar ancTThe^Administrator of the British East Africa Company, and had 

 accompanied Sir Gerald Portal on his special mission. During Mr. Berkeley's 

 tenure of the principal administrative post in Uganda (though whilst he was 

 on leave of absence) the great Sudanese mutiny broke out. f 



It has been already stated in this historical summary that Captain 

 Lugard, after his arrival in Uganda as the representative of the British 

 East Africa Company in 1890, soon realised that if he was to play a 

 dominant part in the settlement of Uganda he must have a force of armed 

 men at his disposal who were not Baganda. To have used the Protestants 

 aofainst the Catholics or the Muhammadan Baganda against their Christian 

 fellow-countrymen would have been a direct encouragement to civil war. 

 At the same time, the few hundred armed Swahilis from the coast — mere 

 armed porters, without military training — were a broken reed to rely on 

 in the event of any one of the Uganda factions turning its arms against 

 the chartered ) company's representatives or the Anglican missionaries. 

 Accordingly, he decided to introduce Selim Bey and the remnant of Emin's 

 soldiers, who had established themselves on the north-west coast of Lake 

 Albert. It was Lu gard, t herefore^ ^_wh o introduc ed, tbe. Sudanese ^soldiery 

 intojlganda! But,~"at tlie time, it is difficult to see what other course he 



* Entebbe was a i)lace of some note amongst the Baganda before the days of 

 European administration. Its name means " The Throne." 



t Mr. Berkeley was transferred in July, 1899, to Tunis, as Consul-General, his 

 place being taken in Uganda temporarily by Colonel Trevor Ternan, C.M.G., D.S.O. 



