Identifier: storyofafricaits03brow (find matches)
Title: The story of Africa and its explorers
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Brown, Robert, 1842-1895
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Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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e fickle king. He now fell underthe thrall of a sorceress, who claimed to bepossessed of the hibari of the Nyanza,and under her influence he and hischiefs prohibited both Christianity ofjS kiSg.and Mohammedanism, and returnedto their old Pagan practices. The year 1880was a period of sore trial for European in-fluence. Only a few lads remained amongMessrs. Mackay and Pearsons pupils, but eventhey deserted the school, and the hves of themissionaries were placed in imminent peril,owing to an absurd story circulated by theArabs to the effect that Mr. Mackay wasan insane murderer who had escaped fromhis own country. Once more, however, the kings attitude to-wards the missionaries altered for the better.The return of the Uganda envoys fromEurope, full of what they had seen of thepopulous cities of England and of the great-ness of its Queen, to whom they had been pre-sented at Buckingham Palace, raised Britishinfluence in Uganda to a level not hithertoattained. The pupils came back to school
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wmmmmmm SEIZURE OF BISHOP HANNINGTON, PREVIOUS TO HIS MURDER. 150 THE STOBY OF AFRICA. and several converts presented themselvesfor baptism. Building, carpentering, black-smithing, and other industrial pursuits werelearned by numbers of the intelligent peopleof the country, while various new books weretranslated into the language, in which themissionaries were now joioticient. Anotherevent that relieved the mission of fre-quent embarrassment was the departure, inNovember, 1882, of the French priests toone of their other stations,* after a residenceof three and a half 3^ears in Rubaga. Theirabsence was, however, only temporary. Without following the mission in its encouragements and discouragements from year to year, it may be enough to ^d^y^^ say that its success suffered littlecheck until the 10th of October,1884. Up to that time the English Church inUganda claimed eighty-eight members amongthe natives of the country, and several relaysof missionaries had come and sfone withoutany of

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