ABSTRACT
W H I L E these events were taking place at the capital, there were many other causes of anxiety, and I will as briefly as possible sketch the outline of each of these matters. A few days before the war broke out, I had sent thirteen men with some goods of the English mission to their station in Buddu. Their story was as follows : " When they arrived, news of the fighting had already preceded them, and Mr Walker had left. A party of Waganda came to the mission-house and told them to come out and parley. They declined, saying they were my men and had nothing to do with Waganda quarrels,—being ignorant that we were now involved. One man, however, went out to them (the headman says against his orders), and a party concealed in the long grass immediately fired on him, and shot
him through the thigh, and took his gun. The rest saythat they then sallied forth and brought in the wounded man, which I doubt. The Waganda then surrounded the place and fired it. Our men (leaving the wounded man) escaped, and travelling mostly by night, reached Kampala in three days."
