Text Appearing Before Image: have often had attempts made to enter their house at night-time; leopards repeatedly walk across their courtyard, and not long ago, whilst I was there, a sleeping-sickness patient was carried off by a hyaena or leopard from a hut within the compound. On another visit I found one of the ladies who had been waiting upon this very patient down with blackwater fever, to which she succumbed after only a few days illness. Slow, dull, and trying for missionary and administrator this work in Usoga; but already the reward is wonderfully encouraging. Thou- sands under instruction, many showing evidence of mental ability that will compare favourably with that of the average boy or girl in England. A large number of capable native teachers, a number of promising candidates for the ministry and young chiefs who would have sunk only too readily into the slough of their forefathers are being mentally, morally, and physically pre- pared for the task of ruling their districts in accordance not only with Englands laws, but Text Appearing After Image:
also that authority responsible for England's greatness—the Word of God. Such is the revenge of the C.M.S. and Christian England on Usoga for the murder of Bishop Hannington; and this revenge must have appealed to the most bigoted heathen when, as a climax, the son of the murdered Bishop baptized the son of the murderer " into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost." Even as I write, the news has reached England that Usoga has been visited by a famine and some thousands of people have died in spite of the efforts of Government officers and mission- aries. Such a condition of things will continue, I presume, until the resources of the country are so organised that every nerve is not stretched to secure big hut-tax returns, but to teach the people that they need not succumb at the first prolonged drought. It is interesting, too, to note that although Usoga is sometimes held up as an example of what can be done in the way of hut-tax returns without
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