. The story of Africa and its explorers. s, hadvisited him,:i: and was honoured by theslaughter, in his presence, of a large number of * Miss Stock, The Story of Uganda and the VictoriaNyanza Mission (1892), p. 69, from which excellentwork many of the facts in this chapter have been derived ;and The Victoria Nyanza and Bishop Hannington (Church Missionary Society). t A full account of this interesting journey will befound in Messrs. Wilson and Felkins Uganda and theEgyptian Soudan, 2 vols. (1882). Dr. Felkins diary of hisfirst journey appeared in the Cimrch Missionary Gleanerfor 1879. X Centra
. The story of Africa and its explorers. s, hadvisited him,:i: and was honoured by theslaughter, in his presence, of a large number of * Miss Stock, The Story of Uganda and the VictoriaNyanza Mission (1892), p. 69, from which excellentwork many of the facts in this chapter have been derived ;and The Victoria Nyanza and Bishop Hannington (Church Missionary Society). t A full account of this interesting journey will befound in Messrs. Wilson and Felkins Uganda and theEgyptian Soudan, 2 vols. (1882). Dr. Felkins diary of hisfirst journey appeared in the Cimrch Missionary Gleanerfor 1879. X Central Africa (1876), p. 106. slaves, without the Egyptian envoy havingthe power to prevent so diabolical an Emin Pashas embassy to Mtesa,which took place six months after thearrival of the first missionaries, the kingswaggered about in a frock-coat and bare feet,under the belief that he was dressed anddemeaned himself exactly like the GermanEmperor. He is even said to have tried theeftect of a tall hat in heightening his DE. E. W. PELKIN. {From a Plwtograph hy J. Moffat, Princes St., Edinhurgh.) The missionaries were soon fain to confess thatMr. Stanley had, to no small extent, been deceived by the cunning ment^ Mtesayoung savage, though to stigmatise ?^°,-^^t^that travellers account of Ugandaand its monarch as utter falsehoods—as the French priests did at a later date—is a misuse of words which his narra-tive in no way deserves. He simply toldwhat he saw, and repeated what the kinghad told him. The reception of ColonelChaille Long, and many of the subsequentproceedings of Mtesa, showed clearly enoughthat his character still left ample room for im-provement. Yet the fact is undeniable—westate it on the authority of Mr. Mackay—thatthe people of Uganda themselves date fromMr. Stanleys arrival the commencement 144 TEE 8T0BY OF AFRICA. of leniency in place of the previous blood-shed and terror. As soon as Stanley came,they say, the king no more slaughters
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