In a bayou in the south-eastern corner of the Victoria Nyanza was
the station of Ingonya, a brown scab on the face of the green
earth. The round mud huts of the askaris were like two columns of
khaki troops marching rigidly on each side of the parade ground. To
the north, upon a slight rise of ground, were the white men's
quarters; the non-commissioned officers had four bungalows to the
south of the orderly room and Court House; and beyond a green plot
flanked by a store house and an ordnance building, was a bigger
bungalow, florid in the amplitude and colour of the red pillared
verandah, the residence of the Kommandant, Herr Ober-Lieutenant
Hermann von Schnitzler und zu Pfeiffer. On the northern side,
overlooking the swamp and the distant lake, was a flagpole, before
which paced an ebon sentry in a uniform of white knickers, tunic
and lancer cap, red faced. The glow of sunrise stained the green of
the moon with crimson. A trumpet blared. From the rear of the
Residence marched with stiff-legged precision a squad of askaris
and the stocky figure of a non-commissioned officer in a white
helmet. Simultaneously appeared on the verandah of the large
bungalow the tall form of a white man in pink silk pyjamas. The
sergeant barked. The squad presented arms. A coloured ball slid up
the flagpole.
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