With Macdonald in Uganda: A Narrative Account of the Uganda Mutiny and Macdonald Expedition in the Uganda Protectorate and the Territories to the NorthE. Arnold, 1903 - 314 pàgines |
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With Macdonald in Uganda: A Narrative Account of the Uganda Mutiny and ... Herbert Henry Austin Visualització completa - 1903 |
With Macdonald in Uganda: A Narrative Account of the Uganda Mutiny and ... Herbert Henry Austin Visualització completa - 1903 |
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Pàgina 156 - The city was three-quarters of a mile in length, and about a quarter of a mile in width.
Pàgina vii - ... appended to each volume will act as a guide to original sources of information and works more detailed and authoritative. Considerable attention is paid to political geography; and each volume is furnished with such maps and plans as may be requisite for the illustration of the text. GW PROTHERO. PREFACE. IN the following pages an attempt has been made to give a connected history of the relations which have prevailed between the nations of the West and the Empires of China, Japan, Annam, and...
Pàgina 176 - This is often embroidered with vari-coloured beads, and the edges adorned with small iron beads of native manufacture. The younger bloods do not wear the long bag-shaped arrangement of the elders, their chignon being bun-shaped, scarcely pendent at all, into which are stuck ostrich feathers of different hues. Several of them had dyed their faces a pinkish colour with clay, whether to preserve their complexion by protecting the skin from the sun, or to increase their ferocity of mien, is perhaps best...
Pàgina 183 - ... shore they avoided us like the plague, and we could never get in touch with them. It was full moon that night, and, sitting outside our tents looking across the lake, one felt at peace with all mankind. It was good to see so much water again after all the barren waste we had lately been traversing. I had often longed to see Lake Rudolf, and my desire was now fulfilled. Since then I have had some bitter memories connected with that inland ocean, and should I be fated never again to behold those...
Pàgina 184 - ... three miles north next day along the shore, and camped near another lagoon, frequented by many species of water-birds, such as geese, duck, pelicans, flamingoes, and others, which afforded us plenty of sport, and supplied a very welcome addition to our mess, as half-starved, over-driven goat is not particularly appetizing. At this time we found the waters of the lake by no means undrinkable, although impregnated with sodium, which gave it rather a mawkish taste.
Pàgina 285 - January marched 390 miles, and in two consecutive months had to traverse 640 miles, while the total distance covered during the operations was 1,300 miles. Part of Captain Barratt's force has marched 450 miles during the operations, and been present in three engagements ; while Major Price has covered 400 miles since his arrival, and immediately after a march of 600 miles. When the hilly and swampy nature of most of the country is considered, these performances are the more remarkable.
Pàgina 285 - Waganda had to some extent carried loads on previous occasions, but the organization and management of a transport corps of from 2,000 to 3,000 porters, as was necessary towards the latter part of the operations, were in itself no inconsiderable task. Thanks, however, to the unremitting exertions of the local administration, an efficient service was maintained. ' Transport by water had also to be used to some extent, mainly by Waganda canoes. Thanks to the influence of Mr. G. Wilson and the efforts...
Pàgina 69 - We had passed several small colonies of wandering Wa-Karamojo, though what all the men, women and children lived on was a mystery to us. Their existence must have been a precarious one, as they appeared entirely to be dependent for their food on tamarinds, species of wild melons, birds, and what game the men were...
Pàgina 292 - Considering the circumstances sketched in the preceding paragraphs, I trust that the following list of officers and men who distinguished themselves will not be considered too lengthy. It must be remembered, with such a small number of Europeans and so much fighting, that greater and more frequent opportunities of distinction were afforded than in ordinary campaigning, while the quality of the Swahili Rifles, hastily raised and partially trained...
Pàgina 47 - Thruston is reported to have replied : ' If you are going to shoot me, do so at once, but I warn you that many of my countrymen will come up» and that if you do this thing you will all have reason to regret it.