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response. Before many niontlis were over (perliaps less than a year after 

 Stanley liad issued the appeal from far Uganda), the first party of Anglican 

 missionaries of the Chui eh Missi oiuiry_S oeiety had started in two sections 

 for Uganda . One-half went by way of Zanzibar and Unyamwezi, the other 

 went up the Nile. Both met in Uganda, and the establishments of the 

 Church Missionary [Society, which were destined after extraordinary vicissi- 

 tudes to result in an immensely successful propagand.i, commenced in 1877 

 their work in Uganda. 'I'luly Stanley's letter, the blood-stained sheet 

 of ])aper found in the boot of the murdered de P)ellefonds, was big with 

 fateful results for the Kingdom of Uganda. 



The excitement caused by this bold step on the i)art of the Anglican 

 propaganda roused attention at Kome, or rather struck the imagination 

 and intelligence of a remarkal)le prelate of the Koman Church — Jiishop 

 (afterwards Cardinal) Uavigerie, who, as Bishop of Algiers, liad founded 

 the ] Mission of the White Father s, a body of ardent missionaries who were 

 to imitate the Arabs in their dress, to lead in many respects an Arab life, 

 and thus to convert Northern Africa and the inhabitants of the Sahara to 

 the Christian faith. The views of Cardinal Lavigerie were, perha[)s, 

 consciously or uncon.-ciously, as nuich p)olitical as religious, and he yearned 

 to acquire fresh territory, not only for his Church, but for his own nation, 

 France. Kesolved that the British missionaries .should not have it all 

 their own way in Central Africa, he despatched his White Fathers to 

 the A'ictoria Nyanza and Uganda on the one hand, to the Zanzibar coast 

 and Tanganyika on tlie other. On Tanganyika the White Feathers have 

 done a really great work in making their missions points of refuge for 

 the slaver-raided natives, in introducing the elementary arts and industries 

 of civilised life, and in conferring such benefits on the local agriculture 

 as the introduction of wheat and European vegetables. Tn Uganda^-an- 

 for hmately^^rey cam e into rivalry, both religious and ] )oli tical,__witL--the 

 An glican m issionaries w ho had been first established there, and this struggle 

 for ascendancy between representatives of two branches of the Christian 

 faith perplexed and irritated the weary and fickle Mutesa, wlio in his 

 last days was often heard to regret that he had invited any missionaries 

 at all to his country. 



After Stanley's departure from Uganda and the death of Uinant de' 

 Bellefonds, GeneTaljtjordon^ Govei^nm ent again beg an to interest -itst^ in 

 the jpiestiiiii_of_U^ganda. Indeed, about this time the Government of the 

 Egyptian Sudan, during the last years of Ismail Pasha's reign over l^gypt, 

 became strangely ambitious. It had annexed the greater part of Somali- 

 land ; it had annexed; but failed to maintain the annexation of, Abyssinia; 

 and its fleet, under a Scotchman, :\lcGillop Pasha, had steamed down the 

 east coast of Africa and had attempted to seize the mainland ports. 



