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and general doctor, and be well supplied with drugs, remembering 

 that natives have profound admiration for medical skill. 



" A man who in full Highland dress could at any time collect 

 an audience by playing a lively air with the bagpipes, would be 

 regarded with great veneration by the natives, and would be 

 listened to when an archbishop by his side would be totally disre- 

 garded. He should set all psalms to lively tunes, and the natives 

 would learn to sing them immediately. Devotional exercises 

 should be chiefly musical. In this manner a man would become 

 a general favorite ; and if he had a never-failing supply of beads, 

 copper rods, brass rings for arms, fingers, and ears, gaudy cotton 

 handkerchiefs, red or blue .blankets, zinc-mirrors, red cotton 

 shirts, etc., to give to his parishioners, and expected nothing in 

 return, he would be considered a great man, whose opinion would 

 carry considerable weight, provided that he only spoke of sub- 

 jects which he thoroughly understood. A knowledge of agricul- 

 ture, with a good stock of seeds of useful vegetables and cereals, 

 iron hoes, carpenters' and blacksmiths' tools, and the power of 

 instructing others in their use, together with a plentiful supply 

 of very small axes, would be an immense recommendation to a 

 lay missionary who should determine to devote some years of 

 his life to the improvement of the natives." 



PREPARING TO RETURN TO ENGLAND. 



ON January 15, 1873, envoys arrived from Mtesa, bringing a 

 letter offering an army of his men to Baker, with which to destroy 

 Kabba Rega and place Rionga on the throne, as the Egyptian 

 representative over Unyoro. He also desired Baker to visit him, 

 and expressed much anxiety to promote such commercial inter- 

 course as the Khedive desired to establish. All these matters 

 had been arranged, for Kabba- Rega had been deposed and Rionga 

 was in full possession of Unyoro, which facts were communicated 

 to Mtesa, with thanks for his very kind offer of assistance. 



Baker had felt no little solicitude for Wat-el-Mek, whom he 

 had sent to Gondokoro for reinforcements, double the time he. 

 had allowed for the return having now elapsed. At length, oil 

 March 8, on the ninety-second day after their departure, he was 



