HISTOUY OF THE PROTECTORATE TERRITORIES 247 



In this way, and through the pioneer work of Mr. Jackson and Mr. 

 C. W. Hobley and other ofticial.'< of the Uganda Protectorate, the surveyors 

 of the Uganda Eailway became aware that a direct and not very difficult 

 route existed from the Kift Valley to Kavirondo Bay by the now celebrated 

 Xyando Valley, which is an uninhabited stretch of country between the 

 Nandi and Lumbwa tribes. About this time also a great deal of excellent 

 work had been done by such officials as [Messrs. Hobley, Foaker, AV. Grant, 

 and Tomkins in organising the administration of the Kavirondo countries 

 and Busoga. A Kavirondo chief, Mumia, who had received and assisted 

 Joseph Thomson in 1883, and who is still alive and vigorous, had from 

 the very first regarded the British officials and the idea of a British 

 Protectorate with hearty good-will. His influence through all the 

 troubled times of Uganda had done much to secure the safety of British 

 communications with the east coast. 



The Sudanese mutiny had entailed on the Administration of I'ganda 

 a terribly lieavy expenditure, and had done further harm in delaying for 

 several years a complete settlement of the local Administration, the land 

 question, and the institution of native taxation. 3Iwauga and_ _Kabai£ga 

 had bee rL_caj 3tured and sent out of the country to_ exile, first at Kismayu, 

 and latterly in the Seychelles Islands ; Unyoro had been permanently 

 occupied by British garrisons, and after Mwanga's flight in 1897 his infant 

 son had been placed on the throne by Colonel Trevor Ternan under a regency 

 of three Uganda chiefs. It was considered by the Imperial Government that 

 the time had arrived to set on foot a complete settlement of the administra- 

 tive afiairs of this Protectorate and more economy and efficiency in the 

 direction of its finances. The constant wars which had followed the establish- 

 ment of the Protectorate had ended by placing nearly all the administrative 

 and civil control of the country in the hands of military officers, a result 

 which, although it gave evidence of marked ability in some of these 

 soldiers, was not by any means a satisfactory or economical procedure- 

 Accordingly, it was decided to appoint a Special Commissioner, who should 

 at the same time hold unquestionably the highest military rank in the 

 country, who should attempt to bring about such a settlement, reorganise 

 the finances and armed forces, and report to the Government on the 

 possibility of creating a local revenue sufficient to meet eventually the 

 cost of the Administration. The author of this book was the individual 

 selected to carry out this task, and the results of this Special Commission 

 will be briefly set forth in the following chapter, together with a sketch 

 of the present lines on which the Protectorate is administered. 



