Identifier: europeinafricain01lati (find matches)
Title: Europe in Africa in the nineteenth century
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Latimer, Elizabeth Wormeley, 1822-1904
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Publisher: Chicago, A.C. McClurg and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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S90. In February of that year, in the midst of hisvaried career of usefulness, )Mr. Mackay had died at Usam-biro, and all parties were deprived of his usefulness, hisinfluence, and his experience. Captain Lugard determined to take from the first a standwith King )Mwanga which should show him that he meantto be treated as at least an equal. He crossed into hiscountry (through Usogo) without asking permission, andhaving arrived at the capital, chose his own camping-ground, and fixed his own time for \dsiting his Majesty.The interview was satisfactory, the Englishman was scrupu-lously courteous and observant of the etiquette of the courtof LTganda, and especially polite to the French Fathers andtheir chief converts, whom he trusted to convert into friendsand allies. During the past month, disputes had grown verybitter between Catholics and Protestants. The zeal that canendure martyrdom is little disposed, as history shows us, topractice toleration. The most cruel persecutor of the Hugue-
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CAPTAIN F. D. LUGARD. UGANDA. 209 nots in the Cevennes was a priest who had returned fromChina, where he had bravely suffered tortures unspeakableat the hands of the heathen. Of Mwanga, Captain I-ugard said after his first interview : — His dominant motive was a thirst for arbitrary power.He had been deprived of that power in a great degree, andwas now anxious to recover it by playing off the variousparties within his kingdom, and without, one against theother. His antagonism to European influence rose not fromhigh patriotism, but from a fear lest such exercise of despot-ism as was left him should be curtailed. But in particularhe was opposed to the British, and would infinitely have pre-ferred German or French domination, because his cravenheart was tormented by an ever-present fear, that vengeancemust come from us for the murder of Bishop Hannington.This fear, I believe, grew into a living terror, when he foundhe had to deal with a man who would not cringe to him. Iwas told that h

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