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1895 the Im]jerial Government had resolved to coni^truct that ra i 1 way 

 from Mombasa to the A'ictoria Nvanza wln'eli was tlie in(lis))ensah le 

 condition of the secure maintenance of Hrifisli rnntrol over the i-egi ons 

 a bout the sources of the N ile. The preliminary raihviiv survevs had alwavs 

 avoided the direct route to the lake through the Nandi country, [)artlv 

 because an exaggerated impression had been formed of the diflficulties of 

 climbing the ^Nlau Escarpment in this direction, and jiartly owing to the 

 truculence of the Nandi, a tribe who had shown themselves at all times very 

 ready to be hostile to Swaliili caravans and Euro[)ean expeditions. It is to be 



MWANGA, EX-KING OF UGANDA (THE KIGIKE ON THE KIGHT-HANl' SIDE), IN 

 CHARGE OF AN UGANDA NATIVE OFFICER, ANDREA 



feared, from what we know of the way in which Swahili traders treat the 

 natives of countries they trav'erse, that the blame for this hostile attitude 

 on the part of the Nandi originally rests with the Zanzibar and Mombasa 

 caravans, while in 1895 the first actual outbreaks of the Nandi against 

 Europeans were provoked by the aggressions of the Scotch trader, Dick, 

 who subsequently lost his life at the hands of the Masai owing to .-imilar 

 behaviour. However that may be, the Nandi carried their reprisals too far. 

 and an armed expedition had to be sent against them from the head- 

 quarters of the Uganda Protectorate — an ex})edition whicli eftVeted very 

 little owing to the difficult nature of tlie country and the insutficiency of 

 soldiers. But the personal action of ^Ir. Jackson (until recently acting 



