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Ex-King Mbogo and I became fast friends, long before the 

 journey had ended ; and though some years have passed, he 

 generally honours me with a visit when I go to Kampala, where 

 he is now settled on Nakasero hill. He behaved sensibly and 

 well during the Soudanese mutiny ; for the mutineers wrote to 

 him and offered to make him king of Uganda. Mbogo not only 

 promptly declined the offer, but advised them in the strongest 

 terms to return at once to their allegiance to the British Govern- 



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ment. Had he accepted, the whole of the Mohammedan faction 

 in Uganda would have gone over to the mutineers. His stay 

 at Zanzibar has no doubt considerably enlarged his views 

 regarding the might of the British Empire. He is a strict 

 Mohammedan ; and every Friday (the Mohammedan equivalent 

 of the Christian's Sunday) a Mohammedan service is held at his 

 residence, and Swahilies, Arabs, and other Mohammedans flock 

 to it in large numbers. He affects Mohammedan dress. To his 

 native royal bearing he has added some of the Arab polish 

 from Zanzibar. He presents a striking contrast in every respect 

 to the vile and shifty ex-King Mwanga. 



