ago, to try and get rid of the shells, but so far they have found it an impossibility to prevent their use. The natives like them because they can hang the strings round their necks, or hang them up in their houses. Having no pockets, they find small coins a great difficulty, and when they get home, where there are no cupboards, and no means of storing the coins, excepting on their bed-steads, they are constantly dropping the coins about and getting them lost amongst the grass on the house floor, which is often very thick indeed.
Although I am not dealing at length with the difficulties and drawbacks attending the work of the Mission, it is not, of course, to be supposed that there are none. Where is the Church which is not attended by many drawbacks and many downfalls, and does not own many disappointing members? If you visit our prison-yards in Uganda you will find among the prisoners men who call
