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worthless husks was found good and valuable grain, well worth 

 the sifting and looking for. 



The Soudanese having found themselves superior to the 

 different races they met with in their southward progress, 

 acquired a very considerable amount of self-confidence, and, 

 as a matter of course, they looked down on the Waganda. 

 They now formed the standing army in Uganda, and were 

 bound to support the white man, from whom they were 

 receiving pay, rations, and clothing. Frugal and thrifty, and 



THE MILITARY WATCH-TOWER AT KIBERO. 



accustomed to manage on very little, they gladly accepted to 

 be provided with daily rations and clothing, and four rupees, 

 that is five shillings, per month as pay. The presence of this 

 standing army strengthened British influence and authority in 

 Uganda itself, and their successful punitive expeditions against 

 the Wakitosh, Wakilelowa, and Wanandi extended British supre- 

 macy over adjacent regions. 



The Soudanese have also rendered excellent service in guard- 

 ing the frontiers of the Protectorate. The military watch-tower 

 at Kibero, on the east shore of Lake Albert, is simply a mud- 

 structure, but will serve as an illustration of the rough and 

 ready, though useful, methods employed in the country. 



