CHAPTER III. 



A SHORT HISTORY OF UGANDA. 



A CERTAIN Hamitic race who supplied the ancient 

 Egyptians with ancestors invaded Uganda from 

 the north-east at some remote period, thousands 

 of years ago. Mingling with the Nile negroes, and 

 also with the aboriginal inhabitants of Uganda, they 

 settled down there and established a neolithic 

 civilization, which formed the basis for the gradual 

 growth of the kingdoms of Uganda, Unyoro, and 

 Ankole. 



It was not till July, 1858, that Speke, after the 

 discovery of Lake Tanganyika, parted from Burton 

 and proceeded northwards, coming upon a vast and 

 boundless lake which he named Victoria Nyanza, 

 and immediately formed the opinion that he had 

 found the probable source of the Nile. 



This led to much argument in England, and 

 to prove his theory he set out again, arriving in 

 Uganda in 1862, and thus w^as the first white 

 man to penetrate into that country, although Arab 

 traders had long trafficked in ivory and slaves, and 

 had brought reports down to the coast of a wonder- 

 fully civilized nation living upon the shores of a 

 huge lake. 



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