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industrial training vary in age from fifteen to nineteen years. In 1900 

 the })rinting department of the mission turned out 100,000 impressions 

 from four })rinting presses, which are regularly running. A great deal of 

 (Tovernment printing work for the political, administrative, and military 

 departments was successfully undertaken. A little paper called Uganda Notes 

 is now produced, independently of the mission, at one of the presses, by native 

 printers. It should be added, from my personal knowledge, that instruction 

 in reading and writing is given to the natives, and a good deal of printing 

 is conducted in the following native languages, which have been reduced to 

 writing in the first place by the Anglican and Koman Catholic missionaries : 

 Luganda, Urunyoro (which serves as the common language for the whole of 

 the Western Province), Lusoga, and several distinct dialects and languages 

 in the District of Bukedi. Mr. Borup, at the head of the Industrial ^Mission, 

 states : "' I find the Baganda as apt and quick to learn industrial pursuits 

 as the average boy in England. ... I should say indeed that they 

 were rather (juicker in intelligence than Europeans, were I not afraid of 

 being taken for an enthusiast. To take printing as an instance : after less 

 than two years' training I am able to leave the actual working of the 

 printing ofiice — namely, type-setting, making uj) pages, locking up forms, 

 correcting after proofs have been read and marked, getting the press ready 

 for printing, distributing type, cutting paper, doing light bookbinding, 

 etc., entirely to the Baganda youths trained in the mission." 



An extensive medical work is carried on by the Church Missionary 

 Society in Uganda. A large and admirably appointed hospital has been 

 erected at Mengo, at which in the year 1900 there were 33,983 out-patients 

 and 511 in-patients. The hospital contains sixty-one beds, and its staff 

 consists of Dr. A. E. Cook, B.A., M.D. ; Dr. J. H. Cook, INI.B., F.R.C.S. ; Dr. 

 E. H. Bond, ]M.D.; an English sister, three qualified English nurses, and five 

 native assistants. 



The Roman Church is represented by two missionary societies in the 

 Uganda Protectorate — that of the White feathers, which is mainly French, 

 and has its headquarters in the regencv of Tunis and in Algeria ; and the Mill 

 Hill ^Mission, which is English, and proceeds from the well-known Roman 

 Catholic Missionary College at Mill Hill, Middlesex. The Mission of the White 

 Fathers is presided over in the Uganda Protectorate by ]M on seigneur Henri 

 Streicher, Bishop of Tabarca and Apostolical Vicar of the Victoria Nyanza. 



The first missionaries of the White Fathers entered Uganda in 1879. 

 These missionaries met with a very cordial rece])tion from JNIutesa, and 

 were endowed by him with a small property. This mission underwent 

 the same vicissitudes and dangers in the years previous to the institution 

 of the British Protectorate that were undergone by the agents of the 

 Church Missionary Society. In 1894, owing to the more peaceful 



