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him, and he marched towards the Arruwimi river, where
he lost his life.* Captain Lugard brought these men
back with him and installed them in a number of forts
between Lakes Albert and Albert Edward, and on the
southern border of Unyoro. In January, 1892, he returned
to Uganda, bringing with him 100 of these Soudanese
soldiers.
During his absence the Waganda had not been idle,
or rather, to speak more correctly, had not been quiet.
The Protestants and Catholics, united in face of the
Mahomedans, had seized the moment of their expulsion to
begin plotting against each other. Numerous isolated
hostilities arose from time to time. Sometimes a number
of Catholics would meet a Protestant and take away his
gun. At other times it would be the Protestants who did
the same thing to a Catholic. The relations between the
parties became more and more strained till at last there
came a spark to fire the magazine. Some Protestants in
the service of the Katikiro had seized a gun belonging
to a servant of one Mugolaba, a Catholic chief. Instead
of bringing the matter before Captain Lugard, this man
resolved to take the law into his own hands. For this
purpose he employed a stratagem. He posted one of
his men in front of the palisade round his hut with a
pot of beer, which he offered for sale. Presently there
came along a Protestant, and while he was discussing
the price of the beer some of Mugolaba’s men, hidden
behind the palisade, rushed out and seized his gun, which
they took into the hut. The Protestant followed in - a
fury, and Mugolaba shot him dead. The Protestants
complained to Captain Lugard, who requested the King
* I heard from the Soudanese who were under Major Owen’s command
that when Emin appeared flying the German flag all his former soldiers asked
what this-flag meant. Without replying he retired into his tent, and shortly
after reappeared with an Egyptian flag that had been hastily manufactured.
Brandishing it he exclaimed, “ Here you are, my children ; I only showed you
the other flag to test you, but you see I am still true to Egypt. ” But all the
men said that he was a liar, and that he had better take himself off.