Soldiering and Sport in Uganda 



on the 20th June, while Major Owen defeated the 

 Muhammadan party in Unyoro in July. In 

 November Colonel (afterwards Major-General Sir) 

 Henry Colvile, of the Grenadier Guards, arrived to 

 take over the administration from Macdonald, and 

 decided to make war at once with Kabarega of 

 Unyoro, who was persistently hostile, and taking 

 with him Macdonald as chief staff-officer he soon 

 reduced Kabarega to subjection. 



On the 19th June, 1894, Uganda was declared 

 a Protectorate, and all territorial limits for religious 

 teaching were done away with, Catholics and Pro- 

 testants working more or less together to reclaim 

 the heathen native to the best of their ability, and 

 on friendly lines. Colvile was invalided at the end 

 of the year, and was succeeded, first by Mr. F. J. 

 Jackson, and then by Colonel Trevor Ternan. In 

 1896 the Protectorate was extended to the neigh- 

 bouring provinces of Unyoro and Toro. Industrial 

 peace then set in: trade was opened up, roads kept 

 in repair, trees planted, houses built, and everything 

 seemed to have settled down for a prosperous era, 

 when, in 1897, the lamentable Soudanese Mutiny 

 broke out and upset the peace once more. The 

 men's pay was six months in arrears ; it was also 

 only about one-fifth of the pay of the Zanzibar! 

 porters. They had been undergoing continuous 

 fighting, and now they were again ordered off on 

 active service and prohibited from taking their 

 wives with them ; they also complained of harsh 

 treatment from their officers. 



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