UGANDA JOURNAL.


two years on her own in the bush collecting botanical specimens, and, very grudg-.
ingly, in that of a member of the royal family of the Isisi, who had obtained the
degree of B.A. in an English University.
 Apart from the missionaries, there were no unofficial except traders, and
these were non-resident. I have already referred to their activities in connexion
with gin-running. As well as this, they too often wanted to sell arms to the natives and
at times used violent methods to make the latter collect rubber and ivory for them. I
fear that, as a body, the commercial community do not come at all well out of
the picture, though there were at least two traders who are depicted as honest,
law-abiding men.
 Our survey would not be complete without some mention of Sanders' relations
with his official superiors, and others at Headquarters.
 He never seems to have had any trouble with the Auditor and on only one
occasion do I find him complaining that one of his votes was over-spent. Here
he seems to have been lucky, as Military Headquarters, which maintained a semi-
independent organization, were extremely strict, and frequently caused Hamilton
and Bones great agony of mind over their accounts and store ledgers.
 Sanders' main concern was with the Administrator, in other words the
Governor, who lived some 100 miles down the Coast, and who occasionally paid
a visit of inspection. Communication with Headquarters was normally by sea,
but there was also a land telegraph, which was not infrequently put out of action
by elephants.
 The Commissioner had to spend a good deal of time in his office, engaged
on official correspondence and reports, which were typed by a staff of moderately
efficient Asiatic and African Clerks, and, from the specimens given, it appears
that he could write Civil Service English in a manner to which no reasonable Secret-
ariat officer should have taken exception. He could have the honour to be your
obedient servant with the best of them.
 Administrators changed pretty frequently, and most of them are shadowy
figures. In the case of some, however, we are given definite particulars, and their
sayings and doings are worthy of record. One, Sir Robert Sanleigh,
 "was a stout, florid man, patient and knowledgeable. He had
 been sent to clear up the mess made by two incompetent Ad-
 ministrators, who had owed their position rather to the constant appearance
 of their friends and patrons in the Division Lobbies than to their acquaint-
 ance with the native mind, and it is eloquent of the regard in which he was
 held that-he was known familiarly along the Coast to all Administrators,
 Commissioners, and even to the Deputy Inspectors, as 'Bob'."
 Needless to say Sanders had no trouble with Bob, and it was in fact in Bob's
days that he got his C.M.G.
 Here is a portrait of an Administrator of a different type:-
 "Sir Harry Coleby had a reputation, which he had acquired in Bermuda,
 Jamaica and the Straits Settlements. It was not a reputation for loving-