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Preliminary Report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to 



Central Africa. 

 By the Eev. John Eoscoe. 



(Communicated by the Mackie Anthropological Expedition Committee. 

 Eeceived February 15, 1921.) 



[Plates 12-16.] 



At the outset I realised it would be impossible to find the right men in 

 England to join the expedition, owing, firstly, to the fact that the men whom 

 I should have liked to accompany me were only then returning from France, 

 and secondly, because of the expense. I therefore set out alone, hoping to 

 find at least a photographer and a typist either in Mombasa or in Uganda. 



At Mombasa it was impossible to find any man suitable for my purposes, 

 so I journeyed on to Nairobi and spent a week there seeking men ; but here 

 again failure forced me to go on to Uganda. In Uganda I thought I was 

 securing the men I required, but I soon discovered they were not suited to 

 my purpose and had to be dismissed. 



In Uganda a month was spent at Kampala making enquiries into some of 

 my past work and correcting some things in my former book on the Baganda, 

 There were also men to be interviewed and engaged ; but, over and above 

 these matters, I was entrusted by the Government with the task of looking 

 into some native questions which called for attention. I was engaged 

 investigating native secret societies during the whole of the expedition, and 

 it was only at quite the end of the time that I was able to give a satisfactory 

 account of them to the Government authorities. 



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