The war ended in a partition of territory between the factions, and three small provinces were, at the same time, assigned to the Mohammedans. After maintaining Captain Lugard and his force in the country for eighteen months, the Company found the cost so heavy and the prospect of returns so distant, that it came to a resolution to withdraw; but was induced by a subscription of £16,000 from the Church Missionary Society to remain for another year in the exercise of the control which it had acquired. At the end of 1892 the Company renewed its resolution to evacuate the region west of Lake Victoria, and the British Government was urgently pressed to take upon itself the administration of the country. It was only persuaded, however, to assume the cost of a further occupation of Uganda for three months by the Company's officers, in order to give more time for ensuring the safety of missionaries and other Europeans. It consented, moreover, to despatch a Commissioner to investigate the situation and report upon it. The official selected for that duty was Sir Gerald Porter, Consul-General at Zanzibar. {3163} Sir Gerald returned to England with his report in December, 1893, and died of typhoid fever in the month following. His report urged the maintenance of an effective control over the government of Uganda, to be exercised directly by the British Government, in the form of a Protectorate, keeping the king on his throne, with a Commissioner at his side to direct his action in all important particulars. After much discussion, the decision of the Government was announced at the beginning of June, 1894. It determined to establish the proposed Protectorate in Uganda, not extending to Unyoro, and to place a Sub-Commissioner on duty between Lake Victoria and the sea, for the purpose of watching over communications, and apparently without political powers. The Government declined to undertake the building of the railway from Mombassa on the coast to the Lake, for which the Imperial British East Africa Company had made surveys. _Captain F. D. Lugard, The Rise of our East African Empire._ ALSO IN: _Sir Gerald Porter, The British Mission to Uganda in 1893._ _P. L. McDermott, British East Africa, or Ibea. The Spectator, June 9, 1894._ See, also, AFRICAN EXPLORATION, &c., in Supplement. UGRI. See HUNGARIANS. UGRO-FINNISH RACES. See TURANIAN. UHILCHES, The. See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: PAMPAS TRIBES. UIRINA, The. See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: GUCK OR COCO GROUP. UKASE. An edict of the Russian government, deriving the force of law from the absolute authority of the Czar. UKRAINE, The. See RUSSIA, GREAT, &c.; also COSSACKS. ULADISLAUS I., King of Poland, A. D. 1083-1102. Uladislaus II., King of Bohemia, 1471-1516.