HISTORY OF TIFE PROTECTOEATE TERRITORIES 237 



could iiave taken if 

 he wished to maintain 

 peace between the con- 

 tending factions and 

 assert British controh 

 It was certaiidy incon- 

 ceivable at that (lay 

 that Indian soldiers 

 could be sent tol'ganda, 

 nor was it possilile to 

 obtain any other trained 

 soldiers able to stand the 

 climate, and at the same 

 time quite independent 

 of Uganda influence. 

 From the time, 

 J±e 



Sud anese were int ro- 

 d nced_JTr|; o the futu re 

 Protectorate trouble 



177. SUDiVXESE SOLillEK.S : KIT INSPECTION' 



w i t h t hem began . 

 TheinseTves mostly ex- 

 slaves, they had all 

 the cruelty and un- 

 scrupulousness of the 

 Nubian slave-traders, whose name, principles, and religion they had inherited.* 

 Placed in Toro under the late Mr. de Winton, they were supposed nominally 

 to support the power of the king, Kasagama, who had been appointed 

 to rule that country by Lugard ; but their ravages, robberies, and rapes 

 were more tenible even than the misdeeds of Kabarega's warriors. 

 After the greater part of them and their locust-like wives and followers 

 were removed from Toro and placed under better control in Uganda, 

 they rendered very efficient service in figliting the Eanyoro and the 

 rebel Baganda in the years which followed Lugard's departure, and 



* Although these Sudanese soldiers were recruited, mostly as slaves, from all 

 parts of the Egyptian and Western Sudan, and Avere almost without exception 

 negroes of the most pronounced characteristics, they had developed from being 

 slaves, armed porters, and mercenaries of the Nubian traders in slaves and ivory 

 into a kind of continuation of this curious Nubian movement which commenced 

 at Dongola and Khartum during the 'forties of the nineteenth century, and 

 paved the way for the Anglo-Egyi)tian conquest of the Sudan. To the natives- 

 of Unyoro and I'ganda these Sudanese mercenaries are always known by the 

 name of " Ba-nubi," or Nubians. 



