272 THE SPECIAL COMMISSIOX, ETC. 



Commissioner also, being responsible for the welfare of the whole of liritish 

 East Africa, would be actuated by no j)ettv feelings of special interest in 

 Uganda, in ^Mombasa, in Somaliland, or in Zanzibar to champion one part 

 of the territories under his government more than another. The 

 adoption of this policy would relieve tlie Foreign Office of a great deal of 

 responsibility. 



In concluding this general summary of the history of the Uganda 

 Protectorate something of interest may be said about the Christian 

 propaganda which has been carried on there since 1877 and the present 

 organisation of tlic three missionary societies working in the Protectorate. 



The whole of the Kingdom or Province of I'ganda, with the exception 

 of the little District of l)Utambala and the suburbs of Mengo and Entebbe, 

 is nominally Christian, the pcojile of this religion belonging to either the 

 Koman or the Anglican Churches. I write " nominally."' liecause no doubt 

 a large number of the peasants still remain pagan in their ideas and 

 beliefs, although ostensibly they have followed their cliicl'^ in a tacit 

 acceptance of Christianity, or, in a very much !('>> (li'gicc. t>f Islam. The 

 accompanving map will sliow the general distribution of religions in tht^ 

 Protectorate. El-fwhcrr than in Uganda }>roper, Christianity lias made 

 consideralile progress in Toro, and is rapidly conquering much of Unyoro, 

 Ankole, and P>usoga. On the other hand, it has absolutely failed to take 

 root in anv way whatever in the Ka\irondo countries or in a general way 

 throughout the eastern part <jf the Protectorate and in the !Nile Province. 

 In the last-named division no attempts at Christian propaganda have been 

 made as yet since the Austrian Koman Catholic ^Mission came to complete 

 failure some thirty years ago. 



The Anglican ^Mission under the Church Mis.>ionarv Society is presided 

 over locally at the present day by the Pishoj") of Uganda, the Right Rev. 

 Alfred Tucker, D.I). The staft" working within the boundaries of the 

 Protectorate was as follows in the beginning of 1901 : 22 clergy, 2 medical 

 missionaries, 13 lay missionaries, and 22 ladies attached to the mission as 

 teachers, nurses, etc. This gives a total European staff of 59. The 

 number of stations at which the Church ^lissionary Society is working 

 is 20. The native Anglican Church working in connection with the 

 Church Missionary Society in Uganda has a stafJ" of 27 clergy, 53 licensed 

 readers, and 2,408 native teachers, male and female. This staff is entirely 

 maintained by the contributions of the native Church. The provinces or 

 districts of the Protectorate in which the missionary work of the Anglican 

 Church is being carried on are the Kingdom of Uganda, the Districts of 

 Unyoro, Toro, Busoga, Ankole, Bukedi, and Elgon. 



As regards education, the Anglican Mission has established schools in 



