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the Nile ready to lead raids at any time into the settled country, while 

 Mwanga equally distressed the Districts of Euddu and Ankole in the 

 south-wes-t. They really represented stronger forces than the k^udanese, 

 who had won to themselves hardly any following amongst the natives. 

 Mwanga and Kabarega had become the natural leaders of all that section 

 of the populace who clung to old customs, old savagery, slavery, and 

 polygamy — to everytliing, in fact, which European interference opposed or 

 disapproved. The capture and exile of these two kings have drawn the 

 thorn out of the wound of that portion of the Uganda Protectorate 

 represented by the Kingdom or Province of Uganda and the Western and 

 Central Provinces, and the wound has latterly healed. They have enjoyed 

 almost unruffled peace since the deportation of these recalcitrant chieftains. 

 I write "almost" unruffled, because, u}) to the time of my leaving the 

 Protectorate, a remnant (103) of the Sudanese mutineers had still remained 

 in existence in a rather remote part of the Central Province (the Lango 

 country); and as they were making themselves objectionable by raiding 

 the adjoining natives, or attracting to themselves other bad and lawless 

 characters, the present writer was obliged to take measures for their 

 complete dispersal. Seven, by the offer of terms of pardon, were won over 

 from the mutineer ranks, and the residuum (ninety-six) has since been 

 completely overcome by an expedition under Major C. Delm6 Padcliffe, 

 Captains Petrie and Harman, and Lieutenant Thomas Howard. After four 

 months' obstinate fighting in the nearly unknown Lango country to the 

 north of the Victoria Nile, fourteen of the mutineers died or were killed 

 and the remainder of the ninety-six recalcitrants were taken prisoners. 



Hitherto this summary of the history of this Protectorate has chiefly 

 concerned itself with the affairs of Uganda and Unyoro, which at most form 

 one and a half provinces out of the six which (until Ajiril, 1902) composed the 

 Uganda Protectorate. The fact is, that the remaining proyinces, being in 

 a far more backward and savage condition, have had very little political 

 history to record. The districts of the Nile Province, which were abortively 

 annexed by the hoisting of the British flag at Wadelai by the late Captain 

 "Eoddy" Owen in 1894, lay for the most part under the power of the 

 Mahdi, since they were liable in the riverain countries to Dervish raids. 

 An expedition, however, under Colonel jNIartyr in 1898 carried the British, 

 flag as far down the Nile as Fort Berkeley (Bedden), and the outposts of 

 the Dervishes at Bor and other places on the White Nile had either been 

 rendered untenable by the accumulation of the sudd and the cutting off 

 of sup})lies or melted away with the news of the capture of Khartum. 



In the eastern part of the Protectorate there had been trouble on one 

 or two occasions with the Masai — trouble provoked by the interference in 

 their affairs of a Scotch trader, who lost his life in a Masai attack. In 



