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IHE LrKltAT JUUKJNliY l^KUM lU isiLA. 
faloes, giraffes, antelopes, guinea-fowls, and a host of other animals, 
which can be easily captured in traps or pitfalls, so that the native 
African lives in the midst of a country which produces food in 
boundless variety. The reasons for such a phenomenon are simple 
enough, and may be reduced to two,—namely, utter want of fore¬ 
sight and constitutional indolence. 
Mtesa took a deliberate view of Stanley, as if studying him, 
while the compliment was reciprocated, since the latter was no less 
interested in the king. After the audience Stanley repaired to his 
hut and wrote the following: “As I had read Speke’s book for the 
sake of its geographical information, I retained but a dim remem¬ 
brance of his description of his life in Uganda. If I remember 
rightly, Speke described a youthful prince, vain and heartless, a 
wholesale murderer and tyrant. Doubtless he described what he 
saw, but it is far from being the state of things now* Mtesa has 
impressed me as being an intelligent and distinguished prince, who, 
if aided in time by virtuous philanthropists, will do more for Central 
Africa than fifty years of Gospel teaching, unaided by such 
authority, can do. 
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