ch. xiii] THE KING AND HIS TUTORS 371 
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 representing all the districts of the king¬ 
dom. 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 characteristic 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 pushing behind. The rickshaw men ran well, 
and sang all the time, the man in the shafts serving as 
chanty-man, while the three behind repeated in chorus 
every second or two a kind of clanging note ; and this 
