Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIII A BRITISH PROTECTORATE Declaration of Protectorate--A precaution--An effect missed--Half-mast high--An important ceremony--The duties of a Commissioner--A thorough draught--An unholy rite--Rejoicings--My monkeys--Celluloid films--Use of windows--Immunity from fever--Want of lime--Undignified employment--Harbour works--Moving stones--Port Alice--A monotonous life--The day's work--A scientific frontier--My companions--Reinforcements--The house on fire--A catastrophe--Break down--My two selves--Carted home. /N the 25th of August I received a despatch informing me that a Protectorate had been declared over Uganda, and directing me to make this publicly known. I accordingly got a Union Jack out of the store, and wrote to Dr. Ansorge at Kampala, asking him to see that the king's signal halyards worked, as I did not want a hitch in the middle of the ceremony. Next day I rode off to Kampala myself, and on the 27th, in as full a uniform as I could collect, proceeded to the palace with an escort of a hundred men and the full band of the regiment. 297 The king and chiefs were all assembled in the long room in which he had first received me. After explaining that Her Majesty had been graciously pleased to ratify the agreement which Mwanga had made with Sir Gerald Portal, I called upon the king to fulfil the promise he had made in one of the clauses of that document, and make a fresh one with me in the same sense. The treaty was then read out in Luganda, and on a signal from me the band struck up what they thought was "God Save the Queen," the troops presented arms, and the flag ought to have run up and floated bravely on the top of the king's flagstaff; but, in spite of my precautions, nothing had been done to the halyards, and after...
