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man, who seemed to me untrustworthy, and not at 

 all a good ruler. 



A short time before this Karakwanzi's army had 

 come with only two guns ; whereupon Tengetenge 

 and all his people fled without tiring a single shot. 



At this interview Tengetenge again, speaking 

 just as the chief of every village I met had done, 

 begged and implored to be put under the white 

 man direct and not under any native chief, whether 

 Kasagama or any one else. 



Those who have read the preceding account will 

 understand how the government of any native 

 chief is not by any means a velvet-handed one. 

 It is neither strong nor just nor impartial : it is 

 always a government founded on oppression and 

 cruelty, and never, so far as I know, an old estab- 

 lished one. 



It is very easy to talk of the " Gospel of Mr. 

 Maxim," and the " Rights of the Aborigines," but 

 by the time the British people have learnt that 

 justice brought to their minds by the exhibition of 

 overwhelming strength, means peace, prosperity 

 and security of life and property to those who, 

 being under their own chiefs, do not know what 

 these phrases mean, by that time they will induce 

 the Government not to shrink from its obligations 

 and to show a proper disrespect for the so-called 

 " rights " of people like Mwanga and Kasagama. 



The destruction of Kabbarega's power (involving 

 perhaps the death of 500 brute-beasts in human 



