Eighteen years in Uganda & East Africa . 13th came the dedication of the newchurch at Ndeje, in celebration of which the Kangao made agreat feast, when five oxen were killed and eaten, and five hun-dred baskets of food were consumed. The 15th saw me oncemore at Mengo, and two days later I started for Nakanyonyi,where, on the 18th, a hundred and thirty-one men and womenwere confirmed. On the 19th Mengo was reached once more,and on the following day I started for the island of Kome, whereI arrived at A Confirmation the next morning, whenthirty-two candidates were confirmed, and a confe
Eighteen years in Uganda & East Africa . 13th came the dedication of the newchurch at Ndeje, in celebration of which the Kangao made agreat feast, when five oxen were killed and eaten, and five hun-dred baskets of food were consumed. The 15th saw me oncemore at Mengo, and two days later I started for Nakanyonyi,where, on the 18th, a hundred and thirty-one men and womenwere confirmed. On the 19th Mengo was reached once more,and on the following day I started for the island of Kome, whereI arrived at A Confirmation the next morning, whenthirty-two candidates were confirmed, and a conference withteachers, was all that had been arranged for me, and starting backas soon as these were over, I was able to reach my house inNamirembe by 7 , thus doing the double journey withintwenty-four hours. On the 23rd came a Confirmation at Mengo,when fifty-nine candidates were presented. On the 24th therewas a long meeting of the Translational Committee, and on Sun-day, the 25th, an English service with sermon, for a congregation. CAPTIVITY AND DEATH OF MWANGA 257 of twenty-four Europeans. The two following days were filledup with meetings, both morning and evening, of the Trans-lational Committee, and tlien, on the 28th, came the (Conferenceof Missionaries, which had been summoned specially to con-sider further the question of a Constitution for the Church. After a solemn service of Holy Communion, with an addressby myself, the Conference settled down to the consideration ofthe burning question as to whether the European Missionarieswere to be included within the Constitution, or, on the otherhand, to be excluded from it, and find their places as advisersof the Native Church, which they themselves did not join. Thelatter proposal was that favoured by the majority in the Con-ference, and as I regarded the former as a fundamental principle,I withdrew my draft Constitution as a whole from fm-ther dis-cussion. I then proposed that so much of it as had a generalconsensus of o
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