Identifier: throughugandatom00purv (find matches)
Title: Through Uganda to Mount Elgon
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Purvis, John Bremner
Subjects: Ethnology Missions
Publisher: London (etc.) : F. T. Unwin
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have often had attempts made to enter
their house at night-time; leopards repeatedly
walk across their courtyard, and not long ago,
whilst I was there, a sleeping-sickness patient
was carried off by a hyaena or leopard from a
hut within the compound. On another visit I
found one of the ladies who had been waiting
upon this very patient down with blackwater
fever, to which she succumbed after only a few
days illness.
Slow, dull, and trying for missionary and
administrator this work in Usoga; but already
the reward is wonderfully encouraging. Thou-
sands under instruction, many showing evidence
of mental ability that will compare favourably
with that of the average boy or girl in England.
A large number of capable native teachers, a
number of promising candidates for the ministry
and young chiefs who would have sunk only too
readily into the slough of their forefathers are
being mentally, morally, and physically pre-
pared for the task of ruling their districts in
accordance not only with Englands laws, but
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SEMEI KAKUNGLLU.
238

A Noble Revenge 239

also that authority responsible for England's
greatness—the Word of God.
Such is the revenge of the C.M.S. and
Christian England on Usoga for the murder
of Bishop Hannington; and this revenge must
have appealed to the most bigoted heathen
when, as a climax, the son of the murdered
Bishop baptized the son of the murderer " into
the name of the Father and of the Son and of
the Holy Ghost."
Even as I write, the news has reached England
that Usoga has been visited by a famine and
some thousands of people have died in spite of
the efforts of Government officers and mission-
aries. Such a condition of things will continue,
I presume, until the resources of the country
are so organised that every nerve is not
stretched to secure big hut-tax returns, but to
teach the people that they need not succumb
at the first prolonged drought.
It is interesting, too, to note that although
Usoga is sometimes held up as an example of
what can be done in the way of hut-tax returns
without

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