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Uganda's Katikiro in England

Title: Uganda's Katikiro in England / by Ham Mukasa ; edited with notes and an introduction by Simon Gikandi.
Author: Mukasa, Ham.
Publication: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

Gikandi, Simon.

Description

xvii, 211 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Exploring travel.

Uniform Title

Exploring travel

Alternative Title

Katikiro in England

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The start -- Crossing the lake -- Kisumu -- First impressions of the train -- First experience of cold on Mau escarpment -- Arrival at Mombasa -- Mombasa -- What a ship is like -- Lamu -- The wonderful English -- Aden -- Truth stranger than fiction -- S.S. Manora -- The Red Sea not red -- The Katikiro ill -- Suez -- The Suez Canal -- Port Said -- Athletic sports -- Nearing Europe -- Naples -- Pompeii -- Marseilles -- European trains -- France -- Arrival in London -- The Westminster Palace Hotel -- Distinguished visitors -- The origin of this book -- The Army and Navy Stores -- First impressions of London -- Dinner with Sir H. M. Stanley -- The House of Commons -- The British Museum -- 'The Tube' -- Service in St. Paul's Cathedral -- Boys' Brigade Camp -- Lunch with Sir H. H. Johnston -- The Zoological Gardens -- Interview with the Church Missionary Society -- The Bible House -- The Bishop of London's garden party -- Dinner with Mr. Herbert Samuel, M.P. -- A Board School -- 'Ben Hur' -- The Hippodrome -- Lunch with Sir T. Fowell Buxton, G.C.M.G. -- The London Hospital -- Visit to Hampstead -- The Crystal Palace -- Sad news, the King's illness -- The Tower of London -- The Tower Bridge -- Colonel Wallis and the Colonial troops -- Fire brigade display -- Indian and African soldiers at the Alexandra Palace -- Visit to Captain Hobart at Southampton -- The British Fleet -- The Katikiro has fever -- Review of the Indian troops by H.M. the Queen and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales -- Birmingham -- Steel pen making -- Making rifles -- Liverpool -- S.S. Oceanic -- Liverpool Town Hall -- The Cotton Exchange -- The landing-stage -- Cambridge -- 'The tutor of the world' -- The University Press -- The University Library -- 'One cannot have everything' -- St. Joseph's College, Mill Hill -- Hampstead -- An English wedding -- Carlisle -- Canon Rawnsley's sonnet -- The Agricultural Show -- Cows like hippopotami -- Sheep-shearing -- Glasgow -- Visit to the Lord Provost -- The municipal buildings -- A prison -- The University -- The Cathedral -- A coal mine -- Steel works -- Greenock -- Sugar refining -- The city councillors -- Dumbarton -- Shipbuilding -- Edinburgh -- The Forth Bridge -- Luncheon with Sir William Muir -- Paper-making -- Holyrood Palace -- Reception by the town council -- Newcastle -- Sir William Armstrong's works -- Pottery making -- London -- The Natural History Museum -- Lord Salisbury's garden party -- A rest at Hampstead -- Sutton's seed works -- Huntley and Palmer's biscuit factory -- 'The stomach of England' -- Sheffield -- Armour-plate works -- Electro-plating -- Brick-making by machinery -- Cutlery works -- Exhibition of ladies' work -- Reception by the Lord Mayor of Sheffield -- Manchester -- Cotton spinning and weaving -- Rubber works -- A house on fire -- Plate-glass making -- Railway carriage works -- Crewe locomotive works -- The Natural History Museum -- Shopping -- Lunch with Sir Benjamin Stone -- The House of Lords -- The Guildhall -- Visit to Mr. Burdett-Coutts' stud farm -- Visit to Warlies -- Interview with Lord Rosebery -- Dinner with the King's guard -- Changing guard at St. James's Palace -- Interview with Sir Clement Hill -- Windsor Castle -- Garden party at Mrs. Murdoch's (nee Speke) -- How we saw the 'Father of the Nation', King Edward VII -- Tea with the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace -- The coronation -- Westminster Abbey -- St. Paul's -- Farewell to England -- Lord Salisbury -- Across France via the Mount Cenis -- Rome -- Naples -- S.S. Konig -- 'German kindness' -- Mediterranean Sea -- Portuguese rule and English impartiality -- Port Said -- The Red Sea -- German drinking customs -- Hot weather -- Perim Island -- Aden -- The Somalis -- Rough weather -- German cookery -- Tanga -- Zanzibar -- The Consul -- Swahili huts -- 'Mnazi moja' -- Mbweni -- Kiungani school -- Lunch with General Rogers -- Characteristics of the English -- Dinner with Captain Agnew -- Visit to the Sultan -- The Cathedral -- Mombasa -- Mr. F. J. Jackson, C.B. -- English straightforwardness -- Turtle soup -- Kilindini -- Mombasa fort -- Lunch with Mr. Marsden -- Departure from Mombasa -- Derailments on the Uganda Railway -- Port Florence -- Reflections on the government of the English -- German 'ruffians' -- Fable of the two fowls -- On the lake -- Arrival at Munyonyo -- A great reception -- A triumphal progress -- Thanksgiving service in the Cathedral -- Reception at Kampala by the Deputy Commissioner -- Telling the story of our travels.

ISBN

0719054370
9780719054372
0719048982
9780719048982
0719049892 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

98018301

OCLC

ocm38948304
38948304
SCSB-14118222

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library