UGANDA, AND THE NYANZA LAKES 377 
After having taught the children the first verse in this 
manner Mother Paul said that she stopped to avoid brain 
fever. 
In addition to scholastic exercises Mother Paul and her 
associates were training their school children in all kinds 
of industrial work, taking especial pains to develop those 
industries that were natural to them and would be of use 
when they returned to their own homes. Both at Bishop 
Hanlon’s mission, and at Bishop Streicher’s, the Mission 
of the White Fathers—originally a French organization, 
which has established churches and schools in almost all 
parts of Africa—the fathers were teaching the native men 
to cultivate coffee, and various fruits and vegetables. 
I called on the little king, who is being well trained 
by his English tutor—few tutors perform more exacting 
or responsible duties—and whose comfortable house was 
furnished in English fashion. I met his native advisers, 
shrewd, powerful-looking men; and went into the Council 
Chamber, where I was greeted by the council, substantial 
looking men, well dressed in the native fashion, and rep¬ 
resenting all the districts of the kingdom. When we 
visited the king it was after dark, and we were received by 
smart looking black soldiers in ordinary khaki uniform, 
while accompanying them were other attendants dressed 
in the old-time native fashion; men with flaming torches, 
and others with the big Uganda drums which they beat to 
an accompaniment of wild cries. These drums are char¬ 
acteristic of Uganda; each chief has one, and beats upon 
it his own peculiar tattoo. The king, and all other people 
of consequence, white, Indian, or native, went round in 
rickshaws, one man pulling in the shafts and three others 
