. The story of Africa and its explorers. t armed to theteeth. They also dis-tributed muskets andammunition amongtheir slaves, and soserious were the pros-pects of all concernedthat the missionarieslaunched their boatat once and madeready for sailing, incase the mission-house should be de-stroyed anJ the in-mates be compelledto seek refuoe onthe lake. The character ofthe new sovereign was not such as to inspire confidence in the minds of the^ktag^^ threatened Europeans. Mwanga was a lad only eighteen yearsof age, and, though not the oldest sonof the late king, had, for reasons of state,been cho
. The story of Africa and its explorers. t armed to theteeth. They also dis-tributed muskets andammunition amongtheir slaves, and soserious were the pros-pects of all concernedthat the missionarieslaunched their boatat once and madeready for sailing, incase the mission-house should be de-stroyed anJ the in-mates be compelledto seek refuoe onthe lake. The character ofthe new sovereign was not such as to inspire confidence in the minds of the^ktag^^ threatened Europeans. Mwanga was a lad only eighteen yearsof age, and, though not the oldest sonof the late king, had, for reasons of state,been chosen by the nobles to succeedhim. He had often visited the missionaries,and learned something from his intercoursewith them, though unable to concentrateMs attention for any length of time. Inaddition to being as unstable as his father,he was endowed with few of his virtues, butwith most of his vices. His accession tothe throne was, however, marked by theabsence of many of the hideous customswhich, until the teachings of the missionaries. GEAVE OF THE MOTHER OP KIN^G MTESA.(From a Sketch hy the Rev. Frederick Smith.) were hstened to, had been part of the cere-monial on such occasions. His brothers, forinstance, were spared the usual fate of theWaganda princes, who, on the accession of theheir-apparent, had hitherto been killed, in casethey might in any way endanger his tenureof power. What also was almost unprecedentedin the political annals of Uganda, the katikiro,or prime minister, was continued in office;but the king, influenced, no doubt, by the cus-tomary superstition connected with inhabit-ing the residenceof his predecessor,changed the royalquarters from Rubagato Nabulagala. Mwanga, however,very speedily treatedthe missionaries withscant courtesy, order-ing them at ?^ n 1 . ^vil days,one 01 his first audiences to goto the south of thelake and bring morewhite men, his ideabeing that whitemen could be hadby ordering them,like so much clothor so many , some re
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