ABSTRACT
I HAD written to Williams to ask him to celebrate the Queen's birthday at Kampala, to show the Waganda that we observed national festivals, just as the missionaries did religious ones. He wrote to me to say that all was going on admirably and without friction, and he hoped soon to join me. In fact, it almost seemed as if our troubles were in a fair way of permanent solution. I thought that the question of the division of Sesse could very well wait until I should build the station at Luwambu, and we had craft of our own on the lake, when the matter would be easier. I was, however, very nervous about leaving De Winton in charge in Mengo, for the position required a man of experience. The fact was, we were
terribly short - handed. The Company had sent me primarily to make a treaty, and to endeavour to quiet the country and deal with the Mohammedans, and I now anxiously awaited the arrival of one or more competent men to assist me in the administration, and to set Williams free to resume his duties as second in command of the expedition, and in control of the Sudanese. I had repeatedly urged the absolute necessity of such assistance, but none ever came.
