Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Names and places -- 1 North and East -- 2 The Great Lake -- 3 'This Open Sore' -- 4 Meeting Mutesa -- 5 'My Heart Burns' -- 6 An Indispensable Man -- 7 The Buganda Road -- 8 Three Kings -- 9 Equatoria Alert -- 10 The Ituri Forest -- 11 Emin's Adieu -- 12 Encounter at Usambiro -- 13 Lugard's Year -- 14 The Battle of Mengo -- 15 Settlement and Strife -- 16 Someone Else's House -- 17 Bodies and Souls -- 18 Souring of the Vision -- 19 The Work Goes On -- Select bibliography -- Index.