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Uganda by Pen and Camera

get more than £2 a year. Yet chiefs have, in numerous instances, given up their chieftainships, or left them in the hands of a steward, and gone off themselves to preach the Gospel. The teacher shown in our illustration is one of these. His name is Lugunba, and his chieftainship is close to the ferry from Uganda to Usoga, where all the early travellers crossed into Uganda.

One instance will show what these teachers are willing to undergo. Some have been sent in the past to Nasa, at the south of the lake, and one of these, returning in a canoe to Uganda, was asked what kind of a journey he had had. The journey occupies, by canoe, from fourteen to twenty days, according to the weather.

He replied, ‘Oh! pretty good, though one day we did have rather a bad time. A great storm came on, and the canoe capsized. I was thrown into the water along with all the crew, and I sank twice; but just