CH. XIII] THE KING AND HIS TUTORS 371 



In addition to scholastic exercises, Mother Paul and 

 her associates were training their school-children in all 

 kinds of industrial work, taking especial pains to develop 

 those industries that were natural to them and would he 

 of use when they returned to their own homes. Both at 

 Bishop Hanlon's mission and at Bishop Streicher's, the 

 Mission of the White Fathers — originally a Frencli 

 organization, which has established churches and schools 

 in almost all parts of Africa— the fathers were teaching 

 the native men to cultivate coffee, and various fruits 

 and vegetables. 



1 called on the little king, who is being well trained 

 by his English tutor — few tutors perform more exacting 

 or responsible duties — and whose comfortable house was 

 furnished in English fashion. I met his native advisers, 

 shrewd, powerful-looking men, and went into the 

 Council Chamber, where I was greeted by the council, 

 substantial-looking men, well dressed in the native 

 fashion, and representing all the districts of the king- 

 dom. W^lien we visited the king it was after dark, and 

 we were received by smart-looking black soldiers in 

 ordinary khaki uniform, while accompanying them were 

 other attendants dressed in the old-time native fashion ; 

 men with flaming torciies, and others with the big- 

 Uganda drums, which they beat to an accompaniment 

 of wild cries. These drmns are characteristic of 

 Uganda ; each chief has one, and beats upon it his 

 own peculiar tattoo. The king and all other people of 

 consequence, white, Indian, or native, went round in 

 rickshaws, one man pulling in the shafts and three 

 others pushing behind. The rickshaw men ran well, 

 and sang all the time, the man in the shafts serving as 

 chanty-man, while the three behind repeated in chorus 

 every second or two a kind of clanging note ; and this 



