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keeper ; in fact, I had to carry on by myself the whole of the 

 Government machinery at Kampala, and I had not a single 

 clerk, black or white, to assist me. For a fortnight I was under 

 my predecessor, in order to get an insight into local affairs and 

 " to learn the ropes." The day before I left Port Alice to enter 

 upon my new duties at Kampala, I received my final instruc- 

 tions from Her Majesty's Acting Commissioner. My endeavour 

 whilst temporarily in office, I might sum up : as upholding 

 British prestige and authority, and maintaining friendly relations 

 with King Mwanga and all the great Waganda chiefs, Protestant 

 and Roman Catholic. Lugard and my other predecessors at 



KAMPALA SEEN FROM NAKASERO HILL. 



Kampala have proved that King Mwanga and his chiefs were a 

 handful to manage, and since I handed over these administrative 

 duties to my successor, King Mwanga and some of the great 

 chiefs have rebelled and caused bloodshed. 



The view from Nakasero hill shows Kampala hill in the 

 foreground and beyond it the saddle-shaped hill of Namirembe. 

 The village on Kampala hill is the Swahili settlement, which, 

 with the Acting Commissioner's permission, I laid out. The 

 road, seen in the illustration to lead up to Fort Kampala, I 

 made, superintending its construction in person. It has evi- 

 dently supplied a want, for it has since been continued over 

 Nakasero hill, and right on to meet the great caravan road 

 from Kampala to the Nile, known as the Usoga Road. Till the 



