The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-08
UGANDA'S LITTLE KING.
He = Now Years Old and IL Treated ~
Q Very Important PersouaGe.


Very Important Persouage.
A little black boy. living on the north
shore OF Victoria Nyanza. Is the King OF
Uganda and Ii treated by white man and
black with all the distinction and respect
due to 40 important parsonage. His name
Ii Daudi Chui.
The British give him an annuity Of 81 500,
which will be doubled as soon as he be-
comes actually King He Ia now represented
In the Government by three native regents.
His income may seem to be rather small
for a King. but Il will buy all the Injuries
OF life In his country.
Compared with many African potentates
this little fellows life would seem to have
fallen In pleasant places. He was born in
the transition period In the Affairs Of his
country. The British regime was coming
In and native sovereignty was retiring into
the background, not without futile strug-
gle@ and much suffering.
The little boy Ia q son OF Mwanga, one OF
the worst tyrants who ever sat on bar
barous throne. II was he who murdered
Bishop Hanningto and burned at the stake
or otherwise killed many hundreds OF native
Christians. With the faulty that has
marked 30 many q the black Princes OF
Africa he thought he could annihilate the
British.
He was taught the same bitter lesson they
all learned and now he has gone the road
Of exile. immured with a few Of his wives
and servants on one Of the Seychelles ISL
ands. 1t was a great fall, for. as African
Kings 60. Mwanga was a person OF enor-
nous power and Importance.
The little King will never know Life ex-
cept under the new regime and 30 Will
probably always be content TO be puppet
In the hands OF his white masters. enjoy
ing much attention and consideration II he
behaves himself and retaining some SOM
blance Of power.
This black boy can trace his ancestry
back many generations farther than most
OF US. He will be taught to repeat the
names Of his fathers who have sat on the
throne OF Uganda from tho time when
Shakespeare was writing his plays Many
OF his ancestors We 9 not persons TO be
proud Of, though their memory is veneer
ated, almost as though they were gods. by
the people Of Uganda.
I'd IKE was the first white man to sec any
Of the boys lineage The British explorer
had given to the little Kings grandfather
some impressive specimens Of his marks
manship with the rife One day Mtesa and
| the explorer were out walking and the King
was amusing himself by pointing to trees,
birds, goats and other objects and asking
| Spoke to shoot them. The explorer HUI
| mored the royel within until finally the King
| seeing q young black woman AT short dis
| lance pointed to her and said: shoot her.
Spoke drew the line at human targets and
| the King was amazed and displeased be-
| cause his great friend declined to improve
30 slight an opportunity TO afford him
| amusement.
This same potentate was one day walk
ing with another white man In the woods
accompanied by several scores Of his wives
| and attendants when one OF his wives ven
| tured to offer his Majesty come ripe fruit
she had plucked. The King few into a
| passion over this familiarity. knocked the
woman down with club and began TO beat
her to death: her life was saved only by the
intervention OF the white man.
There will be no such episodes In the life
| of the present King OF Uganda. He IL
being taught to read and write. he Is being
introduced TO the amenities OF civilized life
and in fact he knows no life except among
those whom IL In thought will benefit and
improve him.
| He is likely TO be proud little Prince, for
he IL surrounded with the trappings and
| ceremonies of royalty at an age when most
young Princes are In the nursery; but II
| his pride becomes overwcenng. the Brit
| ish will know how TO take him down a peg
or two.
Some photographs taken Of him are
interesting. One Of them shows the E.tl
| fellow. between and years OF age. hole
| ing his nurses hand and toddling over the
| grass, while a score of ~. vart East Indian
soldiers are presentU g rms at a respectful
| distance Another SHOWS him on his
throne surrounded by the leading N inls
| Of the native government with his two
| sisters near him. one of whom IL cons!d r.
| ~ the natives 10 be a very pretty girl.
The Prince. like his grandfather Mtesa
has a long. thin face, with aquiline hose
| and none of the characteristics Of the negro
physiognomy. He is really a flne-lookin .
| hoy A white woman who saw him last
| war went into ecsi! si - over his ewes.
which. ARE large, soft AID rather sad. Tn
little fellow. in fact. usually wears an ex-
| preston Indicating that he takes a very
serious view Of life. ard well he might
with 20 many people around him ,ternally
kJw towing and presenting arms.
| Why do the British keep up the sem
blanoe OF royalty In the Uganda Protec.
torats' One reason IL because the British
Themselves are SUBJECTS ~ King. aud
they always treat the royGly II the ooun-
TREE they seiAr With resp' Ct. provided
these native poten'ates are shre~d enough
Ia unns thsir in,er,sis Ia those 81 th@r
oonqu-rors
Anoth.r reason IL that the Kings nam"
10 soipssh,ns Ia oonJure with Ia su'h q
country 40 I sAIda iils fsth.rs Tor ~rfi.
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| power and innuefos among A'-JT 0s 30
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