MISSIONARIES AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS 



Africa and Uganda, said in his report to the home gov- 

 ernment : 



" All the difference between the Uganda of 1900 and 

 the bloody, harassed, and barbarous days of King Mtesa 

 and his son, Mwaggo, is really extraordinary, and the 

 larger share in this improvement is undoubtedly due to 

 the teaching of the missionaries. I do honestly consider 

 that the work of the great missions in the Uganda Protec- 

 torate has achieved most satisfactory results. It cannot 

 be said that the natives of the Uganda Protectorate have 

 been spoiled by Christianity; they have been greatly im- 

 proved, and have, in the adoption of this religion, lost 

 neither manliness nor straightforwardness." 



When this prominent colonizer once received a depu- 

 tation from the Basoga people, as he passed through 

 their country, he closed his address to them with these 

 words : 



*' Long ago we English were like the Kavirondo (a 

 people which are much despised by the more intelligent 

 and civilized Basoga), and we wore no clothes and 

 smeared our bodies with paint, but when we learned 

 Christianity from the Romans, we changed and became 

 great. We want you to learn Christianity, and to follow 

 in our steps, and you, too, will be great." 



In regard to the settlers of British East Africa, I 

 regret to say that many of them are of an inferior type of 

 people, whose general conduct is very offensive to decent 

 white men and a reproach not only to Christianity, but also 

 to civilization in the eyes of the heathen and Moham- 

 medan. Many of them will not hesitate to maltreat the 



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