Identifier: inwildestafricar00macq (find matches)
Title: In wildest Africa : the record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various native tribes
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: MacQueen, Peter, 1865-1924
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Publisher: London : George Ball and sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ueenVictoria and King Edward. The boy-king ofUganda can write very well in English. He ridesa good pony and will no doubt become a refined,well-educated, and accomplished ruler. He is al-ready a member of the Christian Church. He wasa bright and pleasing figure to find in the centre ofAfrica, amid so much squalor and violence; likea little root of roses growing undefiled amid thewreckage of a battle field. It is only yesterday that the grandfather of thisboy, Dauda Chwa, the great Mtsesa, was markinghis reign with savage massacres. King Mtsesa,descended from many war-like and cruel ancestors,ruled absolutely over the lives and properties of hissubjects. The Baganda are the Japanese of Africaand, before Cameron or Stanley made them knownto the world, they far excelled the surroundingtribes in cleanliness, neatness and decency, in sani-tary living and comfortable dwellings. Neverthe-less the people were in the bond of a most gallingtyranny. King Mtsesa, when the white men saw him first,
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Kampala the Historic Capital 339 had conquered nearly every tribe on the West Coastof Victoria Nyanza. He had a method of advanc-ing his empire very much resembhng that of An-cient Rome. The conquered tribes vrere amalga-mated with the ruling race. Each chief came tothe kings court, and gave to the king one of hisdaughters to wife. All the children of the daugh-ters of the chiefs were brought up at the court. When a king died, and the time came to appointhis successor, all the children but two were ruth-lessly put to death. The reason for preserving twoalive was that one might be retained for the thronein case the successful candidate died. The executions which attended the first audiencesgiven the white men by )\Itsesa; the massacre ofthousands of men and women to appease his an-cestral spirits or allay his fears of too powerfulsubordinates; and the murder of men and womenfor petty offences, blackened the memory of a rulerwho did much for his people. King Mtsesa welcomed to his domin

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