Major Lugard, in a long and able letter to the
Times, has 'explained the reason of Colonel Colvile's attack on Unyoro. Kabarega, the chief of that country—which is, geographically, ,part of Uganda, as Wales is of England—has made 'himself the centre of the slave-raiding business, and has created such misery, especially in Torn, that Major Lugard built forts, and settled four thousand Soudanese soldiers to hold the -marches against the Unyoro chief. The latter was greatly -irritated, and when the Soudanese were withdrawn—probably, thinks Major Lugard, to meet some emergency in Uganda—he invaded Tom ; and it has become necessary to put him down. —First, because, if we do not, the slave-raiding will revive ; -and, secondly, because we cannot hold the Protectorate of Unyoro as we do without securing the province a decent -government. The letter is quite unanswerable ; but oh ! for :an auxiliary force of five thousand men upon the Lakes, whose mere appearance would overcome resistance at any point in the Lake country. It is not our ambition, it is our terrible audacity in dispensing with proper means, which produces all the bloodshed.
