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ago. A month or so later, he turned up again at Masindi in his 

 former naked condition, with a story of cruelty against his 

 father whom he accused of stripping him of his new suit of 

 clothes. He begged me to take him on again as a servant. This 

 being refused, he tried unsuccessfully to get my Arab servant 

 to take him on for daily rations without wages. Since then 

 I have not been very keen to try another Soudanese lad as a 

 domestic servant. 



We were at Ufumb in Unyoro when my companion, the 

 military officer in command of the district, received news that 



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THE SOUDANESE CAPTAIN, SLRUR EFFENDI, AND HIS FAMILY. 



ex-king Mwanga of Uganda had escaped from German con- 

 trol, had re-entered British territory, and was supposed to be 

 working his w-ay towards Unyoro. Consequently, on reach- 

 ing Fovira, my companion remained but one day to pay the 

 troops, and then left for Mruli, the frontier station of Unyoro. 



That same night some alarming symptoms showed them- 

 selves, of the effect the mutiny in Uganda was having on our 

 Soudanese soldiers in Unyoro. My companion, before he left 

 me, had mentioned to me that Surur Effendi, the Soudanese 

 captain, had reported Farijalla Dongolawi Effendi, his first lieu- 

 tenant, as being disloyal. My companion had thereupon re- 

 quested that witnesses should be brought forward to substantiate 



