Poll tax on the people, and the values of this and the one imposed by the Administration are not very widely different.
It does always strike people very forcibly that, whilst coming from within ten miles of Mombasa at the coast, right up to Uganda, the whole of the inhabitants of the country are savages in appearance and in most of their habits; yet, when one comes to Uganda, the people are found to be clothed and in their right minds. When Sir H. M. Stanley saw the photographs of the two Christian boys here presented, he exclaimed, ‘Do you know, this is exactly what I have always noticed throughout Africa. The Christian natives have not the hunted, fearful expression of countenance that the heathen have. The Christians have a brighter, more intelligent, and more solid expression.’ These boys have been brought up as Christians for several years, though the one at the right hand, as a child, was carried away from
