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THE SPECIAL COMMISSION, ETC. 



to be faced, and a very strong expedition vinder Lieutenant-Colonel Evatt 

 was sent into the Nandi country in the summer of 1900. Hostilities 

 lasted until November, when the Nandi, having had enough fighting, 



It.3. 'lliK TK.1F<1HAHY KESHiF.NCE OF THE COLLECTOR FOR THE UXYORO DISTRICT 



sought for and obtained terms of peace. Two months after the peace was 

 concluded, the Special Commissioner travelled in all directions through 

 their country, meeting everywhere with a perfectly fi'iendly reception, and 

 it may be considered now that the Nandi have settled down . for good ; 

 in fact, many of their young men are already presenting themselves for 

 enrolment in the Uganda police force. 



At the present time the European Administration of the Uganda 

 Protectorate is not unnecessarily extended, and is confined in the main to 

 those districts where the presence of European or Asiatic traders or settlers 

 obliges the establishment of British officials to ensure the maintenance of 

 law and order on the part of the foreigners quite as much as on that of 

 the natives. In those districts where it is not at present necessary to 

 station European officials, and consequenly where no direct expenditure of 

 Imperial funds takes p)lace, no taxation on the natives is imposed, the 

 general theory being that the native should pay for the protection which 



