CHAPTER XI. 



UNYORO. 



UNYORO used to be a separate kingdom under King 

 Kabarega. Casati and Baker Pasha speak of him as 

 King Chua. In the heyday of his power the king 

 held annually a great assembly of all his chiefs, at 

 which he chose haphazard one to be beheaded there and 

 then. He stood by with a bowl to catch the blood and to 

 sprinkle it around ; the corpse was ignominiously thrown to 

 the vultures and the hyjenas. Casati was persuaded to give up 

 his rifles, and when disarmed, was ordered off to execution ; 

 but though he escaped with his life, it was as a hunted fugitive, 

 and with the loss of all his possessions, including his valuable 

 diary and collection. Baker Pasha was received by the king 

 with professions of friendship, and then treacherously attacked 

 at night, so that he had to light his way step by step out of the 

 country, incessantly harassed on the march, and losing many 

 of his followers in killed and wounded. 



When the British Government expelled King Kabarega and 

 drove him into exile, Unyoro ceased to be a kingdom and was 

 annexed as a province to the Uganda Protectorate. This pro- 

 vince is bounded on the south by the Kafu River, on the east 

 and on the north by the Xile, and on the west by Lake Albert. 



Ex-kmg Kabarega took refuge on the right bank of the Nile. 

 His presence there became a standing menace, and therefore 

 most of the Protectorate troops were stationed in Unyoro. Fort 

 Masindi was built, and it became, owing to its central position, 

 the headquarters of the province. The other stations are : Mruli 

 on the Kafu River, Kibero and Mahaji on the east and west 

 shore respectively of Lake Albert, Fovira and Fajao on the 

 Nile, Hoima and Kitanwa inland. Fort Masindi is built on the 

 usual lines, with a wooden stockade and a deep trench. 



