will look it up in your books and tell me what they say about it.’ Even if they do not say this, it usually happens that you will find the boy sitting outside the door shortly after you reach home, and on inquiring as to his business, he says, ‘I am just come down to ask if you will please explain from your books what I asked you about in school.’
The intelligence of the Baganda is quite equal to that of Englishmen; it is only a question of training. They learn to write in an incredibly short space of time, whilst they stick at and master arithmetic in a way that many Englishmen would be pleased to copy. From 9.30 to 10.30 we have, in Mengo Boys‘ School, a very large increase in our attendance, youths and men from other Bible classes swelling our number to 450, 500, 540. The daily average is 450 from Tuesday to Friday, on Saturday there are not so many. Some thousands have
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