African Incidents; Personal Experiences in Egypt and Unyoro (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900. Excerpt: ... SEQUEL Major Thruston's Life in Unyoro, and Death in Usoga, and an Account of the Mutiny of the Uganda Rifles, September 1897. X7TTH the last chapter the "Personal Experiences" end. The hope expressed in the Epilogue was destined to a dark eclipse at Lubwa's. Major Thruston was destined never to see again his home in England, or those there who so eagerly longed for his return. There remains only, therefore, to tell the little that is known of the last few months of his life in Africa, and to describe the events and blunders that brought the troops, in whom he took so deep and lively an interest, to desertion and mutiny, culminating in his death, and ultimately in their own destruction. There had been many changes in the Protectorate in the interval between Thruston's leaving Africa early in 1895 and his return in 1897. On Colvile's departure, too ill to appoint a successor, Mr Jackson, primarily a naturalist and explorer, but who was also a vice-consul for British East Africa, assumed the charge of the Protectorate. During the four and a half months of his administration he permitted the extension of the English dominion by a continua 1896 UGANDA AGAIN 287 tion of the series of expedit1ons against the neighbouring tribes, undertaken somewhat at hap-hazard it is true, and without the sanction of the Home Government. In fact, it was not till after Mr Berkeleyhad replaced Mr Jackson, and become the first regularly appointed Commissioner, that this sanction was obtained. The English Protectorate was proclaimed over Unyoro and Usoga later in 1895, and in 1896 over Nandi, Kavirondo, and the adjoining provinces. During the first part of Mr Berkeley's administration all appeared to go well. In Uganda proper there was a very considerable increase in material pros...