. The story of Africa and its explorers. e enterprise wasconfessedly arduous, and, in theopinion of those who knew the of Stanleyscharacter of the people to be dealt ^^with, by no means hopeful. Mtesa was anextraordinary man, wayward in character, D., , formerly of Uganda. 140 THE 8T0BY OF AFRICA. and reared in tlie worst practices of tlaesavage kingdom which he ruled; but hisabihty, and even his generosity, were scarcelyless remarkable. To the last he remainedcapricious, double-dealing, and self-indul-gent ; but only those embittered by dis-appointment can deny him the possessionof so
. The story of Africa and its explorers. e enterprise wasconfessedly arduous, and, in theopinion of those who knew the of Stanleyscharacter of the people to be dealt ^^with, by no means hopeful. Mtesa was anextraordinary man, wayward in character, D., , formerly of Uganda. 140 THE 8T0BY OF AFRICA. and reared in tlie worst practices of tlaesavage kingdom which he ruled; but hisabihty, and even his generosity, were scarcelyless remarkable. To the last he remainedcapricious, double-dealing, and self-indul-gent ; but only those embittered by dis-appointment can deny him the possessionof some of the kingly qu ah ties. Eager fornovelty, anxious to please, and ready to follow desired the traveller, on departing, to leavewith him a young African who had been atthe Universities Mission School at Zanzibar,m order to read to him the Scriptures inSwahili, a language understood by the kingand his chiefs. Still, whatever might be the dangers andthe discouraofements of the new mission tothe centre of Africa, the enthusiasm of those. HOUSE AT MENGO, UGANDA, BUILT BY NATIVES FORBISHOP TUCKER. (From a Sketch by Bishop Tucker.) the influence of any mind superior to his own,more especially when the mind was that of aforeign visitor, Mtesa, between the visit ofSpeke and that of Stanley, had becomenominally a Mussulman, and was so far capti-vated with the new faith which he had learnedfrom the Arab traders, who since Spekes visithad frequented the place more and more,that he sent to Gordon, begging him to despatcha Mohammedan teacher capable of instructinghim in the Koran. Equally facile in thehands of Mr. Stanley, he professed to be con-vinced of the superior merits of Christianity(Vol. II., pp. 287, 297), and, as we have seen, •?^ c. eager to go was equal to the munificence ofthose who had provided the means to defraythe cost of this great adventure. In June,1876, seven months from the time the societyhad resolved to undertake the work,a well-equipped party, eight in missiona
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