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wrote : " I have invariably found the poor people ready and 
eager to listen to the story of the Cross. Numbers of 
instances rise up before me as I write, where the hearers 
have testified their astonishment and joy at the love of 
Jesus in dying for them. Do not give way an inch if the 
station is proposed to be given up. It is true we ourselves 
have written in a despairing spirit at times. On December 
23rd we had that crushing vote to reject Christianity, and 
to stop our teaching. Now, things are changing again, and 
public opinion coming round in our favour." 
In " Uganda, and the Egyptian Soudan," recently issued, 
and written by two of these missionaries, Messrs. Felkin 
and Wilson, the following estimate of M'tesa is given : 
"M'tesa, the present monarch of Uganda, is now about 
forty-five years of age, and when I first knew him was tall, 
slender, active, and graceful in his movements, but he has 
now aged a good deal, and become broken by long illness. 
He is shrewd and intelligent, having learnt to read and 
write Arabic, and he can also speak several African lan- 
guages beside his own. His great aim and object is self- 
aggrandizement. He quite understands that Europeans are 
acquainted with many things of which he is ignorant, and 
he wishes to acquire as much of their knowledge as possible, 
and also to employ their skill in procuring arms and ammu- 
nition, believing that the secret of a nation's greatness con- 
sists in the amount of munitions of war which it possesses. 
He is a thorough man of the world, and when he pleases 
can be as courteous and gentlemanly as our own aristocracy. 
He is intensely fickle, and never knows his own mind for 
two days together; and, like a spoilt child, is always wanting 
a new toy. This trait in M'tesa's character accounts for 
his changes of religious profession. He is very superstitious, 
and if he dreams of any of the gods of his country, he takes ' 
