Through Uganda to Mount Elgon . s afraidof his mother-in-law. He smiled, somewhatgrimly I thought, but would not be persuadedto return by the same route. The lady wason the outlook for us, and at the same timeanxiously endeavouring to protect herself fromthe shame of being gazed upon by her daughtershusband. A curious custom no doubt, yet oneperhaps which makes for peace. For the past five years Baganda teachershave been working amongst these people withencouraging results. Archdeacon Buckley andI have baptized young men from Miro andBululu, on the shores of Kyoga, and havefound them bright an
Through Uganda to Mount Elgon . s afraidof his mother-in-law. He smiled, somewhatgrimly I thought, but would not be persuadedto return by the same route. The lady wason the outlook for us, and at the same timeanxiously endeavouring to protect herself fromthe shame of being gazed upon by her daughtershusband. A curious custom no doubt, yet oneperhaps which makes for peace. For the past five years Baganda teachershave been working amongst these people withencouraging results. Archdeacon Buckley andI have baptized young men from Miro andBululu, on the shores of Kyoga, and havefound them bright and intelligent ; and twoyears ago some Teso lads from Kumi, nearLake Salisbury, were baptized by a Mugandaclergyman whom I had placed there. One of these lads came to live with me andteach me his language, but sickness intervenedand I was invalided to Europe. Since then the have appointed aEuropean and his wife to live at Ngora, thecentre of this Southern Teso district, with amillion of people, where the first white woman. 257 Lake Salisbury 259 the natives had ever seen—Mrs. Crabtree—wasthe wonder of the age ; and where the presentlady, if not driven out by malaria, will provea tremendous influence for good. The perfectfriendliness of the people at Ngora may begathered from the fact that many were daringenough to brave the unknown powers of thecamera. Near by is Lake Salisbury, known to thenatives as Bisina, a not very beautiful orexpansive sheet of water except in the rainyseason when much of the surrounding landis inundated. I was able to trace the distinct doubleconnection between Lakes Salisbury andKyoga formed by the rivers, or arms, Aguand Abuketi, marked on the map on Fishermen and hippopotami hunters fromNsoga paddle up one or other of these armsinto Salisbury. Lakes Salisbury and Gedge are really onesheet of water in the rainy season. From the shores of Lake Salisbury we gota glimpse of Mount Debasian, called Kokolyoby the natives, rising some tw
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