From Entebbe to Fort Portal. 
on account of a dream, or to quiet the superstitious terrors of 
the Kabaka, torture, mutilation, daily murders of wives, of 
servants, of slaves, the country emptied of women to fill the 
harems of the kings or chieftains, all this formed a condition of 
A ROAD IN UGANDA. 
affairs whose incidents were so especially ghastly that they 
would seem to surpass the limits of human possibility if they 
were not proved by the unanimity of the descriptions of 
witnesses who saw Uganda in those days. The neighbouring 
kingdoms were in a similar condition, while the population of 
the islands were cannibals. 
The transformation of the country in so few years is 
miraculous, and the greater portion of the merit is to be 
attributed to the Missions. These Missions are the direct 
continuation of the first Anglican Mission which came to 
Uganda in 1877 on the invitation of King Mtesa, transmitted 
to England by a letter of Stanley, which has become historical. 
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