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education at these schools when the last census was taken. This mission 

 congratulates itself on the success it has recently met with in training- 

 native women to be teachers in village schools. These subsidiary centres 

 of instruction given through native teachers are said to amount to as 

 many as 700. There is a kind of native college established at Kisubi, 

 from which important results in education are expected. Teaching is 

 given to pupils of superior intelligence in Latin and in English, in 

 arithmetic and geography. A certain amount of Kiswahili is being taught 

 to those pupils who may be likely to obtain positions as interpreters. A 

 gymnasium has been erected at Kisubi, close to the lake shore. In 

 a canal which is thought to be secure from the attacks of crocodiles or 

 hippopotamuses swimming is taught, and exercise in paddling canoes 

 takes place. ()n the greens attached to the educational institute at the 

 same place, football, single-stick, and other games are encouraged. 



The English Eoman Catholic Mission, under the able direction of 

 the Right Kev. Henry Hanlon, D.D., Bishop of Teos and Apostolical 

 Vicar of the Upper Nile, has been too short a time in existence to have 

 been able to pi'oduce the results attained by the Anglican and French 

 Missions already described. The Mill Hill Mission is most strongly 

 represented in Busoga, though it has also stations in the eastern part of 

 the Kingdom of Uganda and at the capital, Mengo. The Fathers of this 

 mission are chiefly English, Irish, and Dutch. Bishop Hanlon is entrusted 

 with the education of the two Eoman Catholic princes of the Uganda 

 royal family, who stand very near to the throne in line of succession. 

 There is some idea, I believe, of Bishop Hanlon's work being extended 

 in the eastern and central parts of the Protectorate, where at present no 

 attempt has been made to carry on a Christian propaganda. 



As regards Islam, its recognised head in the Kingdom of Uganda is 

 the Prince Mbogo, son of Suna, a former king of Uganda, and great- 

 uncle of the little king. In the religious settlement wdiicli was commenced 

 by Sir Gerald Portal and terminated by the work of my Special Commission, 

 a district of Uganda (Butambala) was set apart for ^Muhammadans to 

 settle in (without prejudice to Christians), and its administration is 

 entrusted to one of the recognised chiefs of districts who is a ]Muhammadan. 

 A large mosque has recently been built at Mengo by Prince Mbogo, and 

 mosques exist elsewhere in the Protectorate where there is any community 

 of Moslems who desire to establish a place of worship. Besides the 

 District of Butambala and suburbs of JNIengo and Entebbe in Uganda 

 proper, Muhammadans are chiefly concentrated in the south-eastern 

 division of Ankole, in parts of Busoga and Unyoro, in the vicinity of 

 the Eiver Nile in the Nile Province, and in the country of I^atuka. 



