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UNDER THE AFRICAN SUN 



cook, and another his former boy, amongst these new levies who 

 have been dubbed by some facetious joker the " Knick-knacks/' 

 under which sobriquet I heard of them already some hundreds 

 of miles up-country. In future, Indian troops will also be 

 stationed in Uganda. 



When the British Protectorate was declared over Uganda, I 



FORT KAMPALA SEEN FROM THE NATIVE MARKET. 



happened to be in charge of Fort Kampala, where the historic 

 document ratifying the treaty was =.igned by Colonel Colville 

 and King Mwanga who, instead of writing his name, always 

 used as his signature the word " Kabaka," which means king, 

 for every ofticial document. The signatures of these august 

 personages had to be witnessed, and for this the two Prime 

 Ministers and mvself were selected. On this occasion one of 

 the great chiefs w'as so impressed by the splendour of an English 

 colonel's full ceremonial uniform, that he lost no time in 

 approaching on the subject the representative of an English 

 firm, and offered a great quantity of ivory for "a suit exactly 

 like the Colonel's," cocked hat and spurs included. 



Another minor episode which happened about that time and 

 which now appears almost comic, looking back at it through the 

 vista of several years, was far from comic to me then. A seething 

 unrest seemed to pervade the Waganda. It led to sanguinary 

 fights under Lugard, and taxed his skill and patience to the 

 utmost. It burst out in fresh vigour in the last rebellion of 

 Waganda, when King Mwanga and some of his great chiefs took 

 up arms against the British Government. Though hundreds 



