THE SPECIAL COMMISSION, ETC. 



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THE iriLLIAM MACKINNON AND THE GOVERNMENT LIAU 

 WINIFRED AT ENTEBBE 



connection with its 

 above-enumerated sta- 

 tions, at which children 

 are taught to read and 

 write in their own 

 language. At ]Mengo 

 and one or two of the 

 higher schools additional 

 instruction is given in 

 English, arithmetic, 

 geography, and other 

 subjects likely to be of 

 use to the more intelli- 

 gent amongst the ])Upils. 

 At an average of fifteen 

 schools in 1900, 5,935 

 boys and 4,776 * girls 

 received instruction vary- 

 ing from reading and 

 writing in the native language only, to somewhat advanced instruction 

 in Englisli, arithmetic, geography, etc. During the years from 1899 

 to 1901 125,737 books (religious and educational) were sold by the 

 Church ^Missionary Society to natives of the Protectorate at prices 

 amounting in the aggregate to i2,-459. 



From statistics furnished to me by the Anglican ^Mission in I'ganda, 

 I should estimate that at least 200,000 natives of Uganda and the adjoining 

 districts have been taught to read by this mission since its establishment. 

 At the educational establishments of this mission there have been sold 

 during the same period of two years 7,448 note- and exercise-books and 

 83,490 sheets of writing-paper. Kishoj) Tucker states : " Witliin a com- 

 paratively short time it will be possible to sup})ly the Government offices 

 and mercantile community with clerks, interpreters, storekeepers, etc., 

 and the Baganda will be able thus to take their proper place in the 

 administration and commercial life of their country." 



Recrardincr industrial work carried on bv the same mission — a work 

 commenced in 1877 by Alexander Mackay, whose name should always be 

 held in reverent and affectionate memory by Europeans and natives of the 

 Protectorate alike — this branch of the mission was specially reorganised 

 under ]Mr. K. Borup in 1899. At the industrial establishments of the 

 Anglican Mission there are being taught at the present time carpentry, 

 joinery, wood-turning, blacksmith's work, and printing. Those received for 



* In 191)1 12, .'^63 children of both sexes received instruction. 

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