84 Central Africa. 
Life. This mission has lately established one or two other 
stations in the same district. 
The next important mission in Central Africa, is that of 
the Church Missionary Society in Uganda, and on the 
shores of the Victoria Nyanza. This society has main- 
tained missionaries on the coast of Eastern Africa for some 
years ; Krapf, and Rebmann being devoted pioneers in the 
work. It was held by Henry Venn, and others concerned 
in this mission, that Africa must be penetrated into the 
East Coast, if penetrated at all. The wisdom of this 
opinion has been proved by the fact that all the successful 
travellers and explorers have taken their departure into the 
interior, from the East Coast, Zanzibar being the starting- 
place for the trips " across Africa." Rebmann and Krapf 
made sundry discoveries in reference to the country; in 
1848, Mr. Rebmann sent home the news of the discovery of 
Mount Kilimanjaro, near the Equator, 5,000 feet higher than 
Mont Blanc; while in 1852, Mr. Krapf transmitted the 
first account of a large inland sea, often spoken of by the 
natives, and supposed to be the chief source of the Nile. 
This sea was delineated according to the popular belief, on 
a map constructed by the missionary, in 1856 ; and in 1857, 
Burton and Speke were sent out to explore the country. 
Speke bore witness to the fact of the missionaries having 
been the .first to make the discovery, and followed up their 
information in his explorations, both then, and in 1861, 
when he made a second journey. On this last occasion, 
the two kings of that part of Africa — M'tesa, king of 
Uganda, and Rumanika, king of Karagwe— were visited by 
the white travellers. 
In April, 1875, as before mentioned, Stanley visited 
M'tesa, found him improved in every respect, more civilized, 
and professing Mohammedanism. Stanley set before the 
