ABSTRACT
I had thought much over the division of the country, and proposed to the Ingleza faction that the Wa-Fransa should have Buddu, Kaima, and Katambala. This they strenuously opposed, saying it was more than half the country. I told the Katikiro that his faction had little reason to be proud of their share in the war, and now they wished to arrogate to themselves the greater part of Uganda. In the original battle they would have been worsted and annihilated had it not been for our support. At the island of Bulingugwe they had turned tail, and had taken next to no part in the fight, though they scrambled for the loot. They had refused from fear to go to the assistance of their people from Buddu; they had not dared to go to Chagwe without my men, and they had not obeyed Williams, and had done nothing in the islands. The Pokino (E.), who was a sensible old man, proposed a division by estates-viz., that every estate should belong solely to one or the other faction, so that petty chiefs of the opposite faction should not be under a superior of the other party as formerly, but that there should be no division into separate provinces. I could not agree to this, for I considered that in my letter to Pere Achte I had pledged myself to the principle of a territorial division. More than that I could not at that time guarantee, but I had said I " would endeavour to make a settlement on the lines he indicated," and this was essentially on the principle of a division of Uganda into separate provinces for either party. Nor did I think the Pokino's proposition, though an improvement on the old state of things, would be likely to insure peace.
