CAMPAIGNS IN EASTERN AND CENTRAL AFRICA, 1890— 1899. 796 had been plundering caravans on the road to Mombasa. The expedition was a complete success, the Wa-Nandi accepting terms after trying the fortune of war in a brave fight in which their wild charges were stopped by the rifle fire of the Soudanese. The year's operations had thus carried the British flag down the Nile to Dufile, secured the Nile frontier of Unyoro, and put an end to one of the chief dangers of the trade route to the coast. In December the works of tlae new railway were by unfortunateevents. InJunetwoofMwanga's friends were arrestedand sentencedto imprisonment for inciting the people torevolt. On July 6thMwanga suddenly left his house at Mengo, near Fort Kampala, and fled to the district of Buddu, at the north-west corner of Lake Victoria, where he tried to get together a following. Butall the principal chiefs, both Catholics and Protestants,remained true to the Government. However,he succeeded in raising a smallrebel army, which was attacked and dispersed by the MENGO, UGANDA. {From a Sketch by Bishop Tucker.)

startedat Mombasa, so that altogether 1895 was a year of success for British East Africa.

Government troops under Major Ternan,and a party of loyal Waganda under their chiefs, on July 19th. Mwanga escaped southwards into German territory. His deposition was formally proclaimed at Kampala, and his boy son Chua was made king in his place, with a council of threechiefs to act as regentsduring hisminority. InOctober came the mutiny of the Soudanese troops,of which something has alreadybeen said in telling the storyof the Nile expeditions. It willbe rememberedthatMacdonald was to lead a column composed chiefly of Soudanese from Uganda northwards into the Lake Rudolf region, with the object of surveying the frontier in that direction, and checking tlae attempts of the Aby-ssinian chiefs to occupy the country, and he was eventually to join hands In 1896 Unyoro was formally annexedby the British Government to theUgandaProtectorate, allidea of governing through tlae fugitive Kabarega being now abandoned. There were some minorexpeditionschiefly in the nature of patrols to prevent Kabarega's friends giving trouble on tlae northern frontier, or Arab raidersslipping in from the Free State hinterland. The progress ot the railway was disappointingly slow, engineering,climatic,andlabourdifficulties proving moreserious than hadbeenanticipated. Another source of anxiety was thegrowing suspicion that King Mwanga and some of his chiefs were intriguingagainst the Protectorate.

In1897 these suspicions were amply justified