ABSTRACT
I STILL received many letters from the chiefs in Buddu, begging me to allow them to proceed with war against Koki and the Waziba. The envoys sent by me to inquire into the matter had not apparently arrived; and both Pere Brard and the R. Catholic chiefs at Mengo seemed to think that they would not act justly, and that Mwanga would have given them secret orders unfair to the R. Catholics. I had at Kampala a headman named Saleh. Like many of the Swahilis, he was a Mganda by birth, having been exported as a slave in his boyhood. He had come up with Mr Jackson, and had at one time been my interpreter. He was popular with the Waganda, being a very respectable quiet man. I now decided to send him to arrange the mat-
ter in South Buddu. All were very pleased, and said, " Saleh will do justice." His orders were, to see that the people of Koki evacuated the five districts assigned to the B. Catholics, and to clearly define the frontier. In the case of the Waziba it appeared that there was no frontier, and they owned estates in Buddu, which they had reclaimed by their own industry from the jungle, while the B. Catholics possessed estates farther south towards the Uziba country. Saleh was to select a fair frontier by which neither would lose-i.e., one so drawn that the estates of the Waziba north of it should be equivalent in value to the estates of the B. Catholics south of it. He would act as arbitrator in both these matters between the B. Catholics and their neighbours. Being conversant alike with the language and the customs of the country, and withal a sensible, shrewd man, he would be well adapted for the task, for he had no bias towards either side.
