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have been enabled to control Ankole, Unyoro, 

 Usoga, and Kavirondo, a stretch of territory per- 

 haps 300 miles broad. 



The evil effects, on the other hand, are numerous. 

 There is first the extremely unsatisfactory con- 

 dition of labour. When a man works for nothing, 

 he will do as little as he possibly can, and that 

 only when it suits his own convenience. There is 

 no security for him to enjoy the fruits of his own 

 labour, and without this no human being will 

 trouble himself to work for more than his bare 

 living. 



In Uganda, where the work of one woman will 

 support ten men, and the area required for a 

 single family is so very small (half an acre 

 according to the French Fathers in Buddu), the 

 result is to check all industry. The effect of this 

 will be in the future to place grave difficulties in 

 the way of Europeans. 



The chiefs will undoubtedly oppose their people 

 if they wish to work for the white man, and will 

 take from them part of their wages. At present 

 Europeans practically pay the chiefs, who tell their 

 men to do the work, but although this seems to be 

 at first sight a very cheap way of getting labour 

 (from the European's point of view), it is a most 

 pernicious and dangerous system. It is only 

 the Government that should have the power of 

 obtaining labour in this way, and neither mis- 

 sionaries nor traders should be permitted to get 



