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I saw the high-school, where the sons of the chiefs are 

 being trained in large numbers for their future duties, and 

 I was especially struck by the admirable Medical Mission, 

 and by the handsome cathedral, built by the native Chris- 

 tians themselves without outside assistance in either money 

 or labor. At dinner at Mr. Knowles's, Bishop Tucker gave 

 us exceedingly interesting details of his past experiences 

 in Uganda, and of the progress of the missionary work. 

 He had been much amused by an American missionary 

 who had urged him to visit America, saying that he would 

 "find the latch-string outside the door"; to an American 

 who knows the country districts well the expression seems 

 so natural that I had never even realized that it was an 

 Americanism. 



At Bishop Hanlon's Mission, where I lunched with the 

 bishop, there was a friend, Mother Paul, an American; 

 before I left America I had promised that I would surely see 

 her, and look into the work which she, and the sisters associ- 

 ated with her, were doing. It was delightful seeing her; she 

 not merely spoke my language but my neighborhood dia- 

 lect. She informed me that she had just received a mes- 

 sage of good-will for me in a letter from two of "the finest" 

 of course I felt at home when in mid-Africa, Under the 

 equator, I received in such fashion a message from two 

 of the men who had served under me in the New York 

 police.* She had been teaching her pupils to sing some 

 lines of the "Star-spangled Banner," in English, in my 

 especial honor; and of course had been obliged, in writ- 

 ing it out, to use spelling far more purely phonetic than I 

 had ever dreamed of using. The first lines ran as fol- 



* For the benefit of those who do not live in the neighborhood of New York 

 I may. explain that all good, or typical, New Yorkers invariably speak of their 

 police force as "the finest"; and if any one desires to know what a "good" or 

 "typical" New Yorker is, I shall add, on the authority of either Brander Mat- 

 thews or the late H. C. Bunner I forget which that when he isn't a Southerner 

 or of Irish or German descent he is usually a man born out West of New England 

 parentage. 



