272 THE SPECIAL COMMISSION, ETC. 



Oommissioner also, being responsible for the welfare of the whole of British 

 East Africa, would be actuated by no petty feelings of special interest in 

 l^ganda, in ■Mombasa, in Somaliland, or in Zanzibar to champion one part 

 of the territories under his government more tlian another. The 

 adoption of this policy would relieve the Foreign Office of a great deal of 

 responsibility. 



In concluding this general summary of the history of the Uganda 

 Protectorate something of interest may be said about the Christian 

 propaganda which has been carried on there since 1877 and the present 

 organisation of the three missionary societies working in the Protectorate. 



The whole of the Kingdom or Province of Uganda, with the exception 

 of the little District ofButarabala and the suburbs of ^lengo and Entebbe, 

 is nominally Christian, the peo[)le of this religion belonging to either the 

 Roman or the Anglican Churches. I write "nominally," because no doubt 

 a large number of the peasants still remain pagan in their ideas and 

 beliefs, although ostensibly they have followed their chiefs in a tacit 

 acceptance of Christianity, or, in a very much less degree, of Islam. The 

 accompanying map will show the general distribution of religions in the 

 Protectorate. Elsewhere than in Uganda proper, Christianity has made 

 considerable progress in Toro, and is rapidly conquering much of Unyoro, 

 Ankole, and Busoga. ()u the other hand, it has al)solutely failed to take 

 root in any way whatever in the Kavi rondo countries or in a general way 

 throughout the eastern part of tlie Protectorate and in the ^'ile Province. 

 In the last-named division no attempts at Christian propaganda have been 

 made as yet since the Austrian Poman Catholic Mission came to complete 

 failure some thirty years ago. 



The Anglican Mission under the Church Missionary Society is presided 

 over locally at the present day by the Bishop of Uganda, the Right Rev. 

 Alfred Tucker, P.P. The staff w^orking within the boundaries of the 

 Protectorate was as follows in the beginning of 1901 : 22 clergy, 2 medical 

 missionaries, 13 lay missionaries, and 22 ladies attached to the mission as 

 teachers, nurses, etc. This gives a total European staff of 59. The 

 number of stations at which the Church Missionary Society is working 

 is 20. The native Anglican Church working in connection with the 

 Church Missionary Society in Uganda lias a staff of 27 clergy, 53 licensed 

 readers, and 2,408 native teachers, male and female. This staff" is entirely 

 maintained by the contributions of the native Church. The provinces or 

 districts of the Protectorate in which the missionary work of the Anglican 

 Church is being carried on are the Kingdom of Uganda, the Districts of 

 Unyoro, Toro, Busoga, Ankole, Bukedi, and Elgon. 



As regards education, the Anglican Mission has established schools in 



