The Rise of Our East African Empire (1893)

Early Efforts in Nyasaland and Uganda (2 Volume Set)

Lord Frederick J.D. Lugard

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780714616919
• eBook ISBN: 9781134570102
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This a two-volume set (originally published 1893) that covers the rise of the East African empire, with Volume I, covering commerce, trade and sport and Volume II focussing on Uganda, its administration, past and future and suggestions for the future. The aim of the author is to place subjects of a serious concern in dealings with Africa in order to protect the welfare of the native races there.

INDEX

Abercorn, Fort. Map 2, 8°40' S., 31°15' E.

Aberdare range. Map 3, 0°30' S., 36° 50' E.

Abyssinia, British diplomacy in, i. 7, 8

Aden. Map 1, 12°50' N., 45° E.

Administration, method, ii. 539—cost in South Africa, 604—responsibility for, 614, 615

Administration in Uganda, my impartiality, ii. 78—expenses of, 313-315—plans for, 515—estimated cost of, 639-641

Administration of East Africa, by Government, through Chartered Company, ii. 603-607—through Mr Rhodes, 608-611—direct, 611-615—Lord Grey on, 612—as dependency of Zanzibar, 615-621—annexation of Sultanate, 626, 627—central headquarters, 635, 636—subordinate centres, 635-638—scheme for, 635-639—at coast, 654-656—central, 656, 657

Africa, British East, native tribes, i. 238-241, 395, 396—staples of barter, 273, 274, 401—population and areas, 369, 370—value to us, 381, 382—climate, soil, &c., 383, 384, 392—waterways, 384-386—minerals, 389—peculiar advantages, 389-392—colonisation of, 392-394, 417, 419, 420, 488-491—diseases of, 394, 395—ports, 396—products, 398, 399 (see Commercial Zones)—imports, 401, 402—has a legitimate basis of trade, 403— commission proposed for determining resources of, 528, 529—our position in relation to other Powers, ii. 565-574, 595, 596—our duties to, 573-582—our prescriptive right, 591—civil status of natives not recognised, 628-630—compared to West Africa, 659

African Council, suggested, ii. 658

African Lakes Company, i. 20—build trading station at Karonga’s, 51, 52—why started, 98—its estimate of freight to Uganda, 448

African tragedy, i. 41

Ajawa or Yao tribe. Map 2, 13° S., 35° E.

Albert Edward Lake, ii. 171. Map 4, 0°30' S., 30° E.

Albert Lake, ii. 221, 222. Map 3, 1°30' N., 30°45' E.

Ali bin Surur, Sultan’s envoy, i. 133-135—fooled by slavers, 144—in collusion with Mlozi, 148

Alice, Port. Map 4, 0°5' N., 32°27' E.

Amelia Bay (Nyasa). Map 2, 10°25' S., 34°40' E.

Ande river. Map 3, 2°40' S., 38°10' E.

Anglo-German agreement, ii. 22, 30, 313, 601—Heligoland, 579

Angoni, Zulu tribe west of Lake Nyasa, depredations of, i. 85, 86—the dominant tribe on Nyasa, 87—slavery among, 174—as labourers, 475

Ankoli, ii. 8 — population of, i. 432 — stations in, ii. 136—cattle plague, 159—nature of country, 161—famine, 280. Map 4, 0°30' S., 30°30' E.

Ant. See Insects

Antelope, i. 78—eland, 529, 530—water buck, 530, 531—kudu, 531—hartebeest, 531-533—sable, 533—Speke’s, 533, 534—oryx, 534—Grant’s gazelle, 534, 535—Thomson’s gazelle, 535, 536—bush-buck, 536—lesser kudu, 537—mpalla, 537, 538—reed-buck, 538—nsunu, 538—pah, 539—grass antelopes, 540—gnu or wildebeest, 540, 541—vitality, 555, 556

Arabs of East Africa, how they procure slaves, i. 90, 91—are of mixed race, 93-95—their religious and social sanction for slave-holding, 177, 178—their treatment of slaves, 190, 191—their fugitive slaves protected by missions, 222-224—war with the Germans, 223—compensated for loss of slaves, 224—and self-redemption of slaves, 232, 233, 296— spoil the labour market, 476—as traders, 477

Arabs of Nyasaland. See Slavers

Arms and powder, amount imported by Portugal, i. 29—Portuguese intercept ammunition for Karonga’s, 152—on the increase, 164 — imported, 213-216—in Usoga, 369, 370—in hands of natives, 395, 396—Arab offers Mwanga, ii. 54—brought by Stokes, 63, 64—demand great in Uganda, 63— imported by French Fathers, 66, 74—Arabs bring to Usoga, 105—lent for war, 112, 113—Ntali to stop import, 160—Stokes’ stored, 252—means of checking trade, 267—Ntali seizes, 279 — smuggled by French Fathers, 374 — largely imported, 415—Germans admit, 443—increasing, 589—check upon, 654

Aruwimi river, mouth. Map (ii. 569), 1°10' N., 23°...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication page
• INTRODUCTION
• Contents
• I. START FOR AFRICA—ARRIVE QUILIMANE
• II. QUILIMANE TO BLANTYRE
• III. THE ORIGIN OF THE WAR—SLAVE-TRADE AND MISSIONS
• IV. BLANTYRE TO KARONGA’S
• V. THE ATTACK ON THE SLAVERS LIFE AT KARONGA?S
• VI. EVENTS AT KARONGA’S—NYASALAND TO ENGLAND
• VII. AFRICAN SLAVERY
• VIII. METHODS OF SUPPRESSING THE SLAVE-TRADE—ARMS AND LIQUOR-TRADE
• IX. SAIL AGAIN FOR AFRICA—MOMBASA TO MAKONGENI
• X. LIFE IN THE JUNGLE
• XI. MAKONGENI TO MACHAKO’S AND BACK TO MOMBASA
• XII. WORK IN MOMBASA—START AGAIN FOR INTERIOR—MOMBASA TO MACHAKO’S
• XIII. MACHAKO’S TO THE LILWA RIVER
• XIV. LILWA RIVER TO UGANDA
• XV. COMMERCIAL POSSIBILITIES OF EAST AFRICA
• XVI. EAST AFRICA AS A FIELD FOR DEVELOPMENT
• XVII. METHODS OF AFRICAN TRANSPORT
• XVIII. LABOUR SUPPLY IN EAST AFRICA
• XIX. THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT AND ZEBRA
• XX. SOME OTHER AFRICAN ANIMALS
• XXI. SOME OTHER AFRICAN ANIMALS—continued
• APPENDIX I.
• A.—THE INDIAN ACT (V. OF 1843) ABOLISHING THE LEGAL STATUS OFSLAVERY
• XXII. SKETCH OF EARLY HISTORY OF UGANDA, AND POSITION OF AFFAIRS ON ARRIVAL THERE
• XXIII. PRELIMINARY WORK IN UGANDA
• XXIV. DIFFICULTIES IN UGANDA
• XXV. DIFFICULTIES IN UGANDA (continued)
• XXVI. WAR AGAINST MOHAMMEDANS, AND TOUR IN BUDDU
• XXVII. BUDDU TO SALT LAKE
• XXVIII. SALT LAKE TO KAVALLI’S
• XXIX. KAVALLI’S TO FORT LORNE
• XXX. FORT LORNE TO FORT GRANT
• XXXI. FORT GRANT TO KAMPALA
• XXXII. UGANDA UNDER CAPTAIN WILLIAMS—SITUATION AT END OF 1891, AND UP TO EVE OF THE WAR
• XXXIII. THE FIGHTING IN UGANDA
• XXXIV. SITUATION IN UGANDA DURING THE WAR
• XXXV. EVENTS SUBSEQUENT TO THE WAR
• XXXVI. PEACE CONCLUDED WITH THE WA-FRANSA
• XXXVII. SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTRY
• XXXVIII. MOHAMMEDANS REPATRIATED — PEACE THROUGHOUT UGANDA
• XXXIX. CLOSE OF MY ADMINISTRATION IN UGANDA—MARCH TO KIKUYU
• XL. KIKUYU TO ENGLAND—THE “UGANDA QUESTION”
• XLI. RETENTION OF UGANDA
• XLII. ORIGIN OF THE “BRITISH SPHERE,” AND METHODS OF DEALING WITH IT
• XLIII. ADMINISTRATION PAST AND FUTURE
• APPENDIX.
• III. ORDERS FOR ADMINISTRATION OF WITU
• IV. NOTES ON THE SMALL PHYSICAL MAPS
• INDEX