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. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... appendix B. A reply to recent erroneous statements regarding the mutiny. S1nce compiling the account of the Uganda Mutiny as recorded in the foregoing pages, it has been brought to my notice that a recent writer has dealt at some length with the above operations. His remarks are so inaccurate, and leave so many erroneous impressions, to the disadvantage of Colonel Macdonald, that I feel compelled, in the absence of that officer from England, to remove the false impressions that have been created. I propose, therefore, in this appendix to deal with certain passages, which I hope it will be seen have no foundation on fact, and that this writer's account of the mutiny is not very reliable in points of detail. It is needless for me to say that I was on the spot, while the writer in question can have no knowledge from personal observation of the events he refers to. Dealing with the escort provided, he states: 1. 'The three companies selected were taken to the Ravine station by their Commandant, Major Ternan, ' etc. This was not the case. As already mentioned in my narrative, they did not accompany Major Ternan at all, as we met that officer at Kariandus, on his way to the coast, a week before any of the Sudanese escort reached the Ravine. They did not march in a body to that place, but were strung out in small parties along the road. Grave disaffection (to which the writer subsequently refers) had previously shown itself at Kampala, when these three companies were still further ordered on a lengthy expedition after constant marching and counter-marching. 2. 'They were transferred to Macdonald, who began his march to the north on September 21.' They were not transferred in a body, as the above passage would imply. They appeared in driblets,
