THE WAR BETWEEN UNYORO AND UGANDA. 499 were enclosed for you. I hope he hassentiton. Should you find time amidst your numerous occupations and engagements to send me a few words, I shall really be deeply grateful to you. I shall, of course, send these lines on the first opportunity to Uganda, but will they ever reach you? ‘The letter from Egypt is dated May 27, and Sir John Kirk’s, July 18, 1885. Added to my misgivings about my own men, who may place all kinds of difficulties in my way (not from ill-will, but from unfathomable and unconquerable stupidity), I have a foreboding that one of these fine days the Danagla will suddenly come down upon us in steamers, or that perhaps the statement of a girl in Lado, quoted above, may be true, namely, that soldiers ~ and Danagla have reached Ayak. It is certain that the latter will not leave us in peace, and equally certain that they will occupy these districts again as soon as possible. They have men and weapons enough now, and the resistance of the Negroes will soon be broken down if a thousand or two of such scoundrels appear well armed. Of course it would be best to expedite our retreat, but how am I to set about it? Even Junker advises me not to be in a hurry.

WADELAI, April 5, 1886.

The war in Unyoro has turned out to be more serious than we expected, and so Kabréga has put before Dr. Junker the alternatives of retiring with him, or starting off for Uganda, where indeed he wanted to go. He chose the journey to Uganda, and left Kabréga on February 2, taking a route more to the south than the ordinary one, in order to avoid the Waganda army. My agent has retired to the lake, where he is waiting till the final retreat of the Waganda permits him to join Kabréga again. The latter is said to have been hard pressed by the Waganda, but has suffered no harm at present. I have, however, received no direct information from him for some time, and no reliance can be placed on the very contradictory reports spread about by the Negroes. In my opinion, it would be a good thing for us all if the arrogant Waganda were thoroughly humbled for once. Mwanga seems to rival in capriciousness his father, Mtésa.