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state of affairs which 

 commenced, the mission 

 was able to extend its 

 work in the direction 

 of Unyoro, and in the 

 following year to Toro. 

 At the present time its 

 stations are confined to 

 tliese two districts, and 

 to the greater part of 

 the Kingdom of Uganda. 

 The ■Mission of the White 

 Fathers had fourteen sta- 

 tions established in lUOO, 

 nearly all of them within 

 the Kingdom of Uganda 



and in the Sese Islands, with two stations in Toro and one in Unyoro. At 

 Rubaga, a suburb of JNIengo, there is a conventual establishment for the 

 education of girls. The affairs of the mission are directed in the Uganda Pro- 

 tectorate by a bishop), thirty-seven priests, eight lay brothers, and six sisters. 



The French Mission possesses a magnificent stone cathedral at Eubaga 

 (^lengo). All its fourteen stations are built in brick, the bricks having 

 been made by the missionaries themselves, aided by Baganda workers. 

 The stations are surrounded by magnificent gardens producing abundance 

 of fruits and vegetables, in the bestowal of which the missionaries are 

 very generous. It is the effort of the White Fathers to procure from 

 the country itself everything whicli they need for the maintenance of 

 their mission and for their own sustenance. Thus, alcohol which is required 

 for the dispensary pharmacy and for industrial purposes is distilled by 

 the missionaries themselves from the juice of the banana, whilst they 

 likewise make all the oil they require for their lami)S from sesamum seeds. 



The mission has founded two principal hospitals, and medical attendance 

 was given to 82,974 patients in 1900. An asylum for lepers has been 

 founded at the principal station of the mission in Buddu, and was occujjied 

 by fifteen lepers in 1900. The number of the registered and baptised 

 Christians on the books of the French ^lission in 1900 was 50,472. Tliere 

 -are stated to be twice as many catechumens who are going through a 

 course of pre^jaratiou before baptism. Apart from the churches at the 

 fourteen mission stations, there are 412 oratories or chapels maintained 

 by the native adherents of this mission in the villages. Twenty-four 

 schools are maintained by the French Mission in which teaching is 

 given by the leathers; 2,516 children of both sexes were receiving 



