UGANDA, AND THE NYANZA LAKES 377 



After having taught the children the first verse in this 

 manner Mother Paul said that she stopped to avoid brain 

 fever. 



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 be 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 French 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. 



I 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 rep- 

 resenting all the districts of the kingdom. When 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 torches, 

 and others with the big Uganda drums which they beat to 

 an accompaniment of wild cries. These drums are char- 

 acteristic 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 



