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friends of the earlier morning, but one group had found an 
employer who organized and directed them, the other had 
not and therein lay the difference. 
These Waganda are everywhere spoken of as being 
the most advanced and the most readily civilized of all the 
Central African tribes. And, after seeing the houses they 
have builded for their kings, and the fine brick cathedral 
(it seats four thousand people, if I remember rightly) they 
have put up for their Protestant worship, it is easy to under- 
stand the optimism of those missionaries, who cheered all 
Christians the world over, by declaring that a great Chris- 
tian people would soon arise to power on the shores of these 
great lakes. But the best of us are at times apt to forget that 
neither in Africa nor yet in Europe does tyranny make for 
true civilization. We stand aghast to-day at the long- 
drawn-out blood-letting that is bleeding Russia. White 
men lose their heads there; they have been themselves 
crushed for so long that they seem to have lost all belief in 
any other methods than those of “‘crushing.”” They have 
been the victims of barbarism, cruelty, and ignorance for 
so long, that cruelty and injustice have become, in their 
eyes at least, subordinate and inconsiderable evils. ‘Tyranny 
has eaten away, as an awful natural law decrees that it 
shall, something of their moral consciousness. 
So, in the Wagandas’ case, the tyranny of their kings 
has left the people lacking in sturdy uprightness. (I 
speak here with hesitation, my knowledge of the Waganda 
being, of necessity, a second-hand knowledge: I did not live 
among them as I did among the tribes farther east, though 
I had plenty of opportunity of consulting those who had 
intimately known them for years.) The Waganda are 
untruthful and dishonest; they have a cringing way with 
them which does not appeal to the stranger. For upright, 
self-respecting manliness, they did not seem to me to com- 
pare at all with the wilder and far poorer people of the higher 
