PREFACE. vii while sanctioning the publication of this book, are not in any way responsible for it. At the same time it will be borne in mind, that the authors were agents of the Society ; and the work, of which the results are embodied in the following pages, was undertaken in addition to their ordinary labours as Missionaries, and must be judged accordingly.

As will be seen from the title-page, the book is the joint work of the Rev. C. T. Wilson and Mr. E. W. Felkin. The first part of it is by the former, with the exception of the chapters on the manners and customs of the Waganda, in which Mr. Felkin has given some help. The second part, in like manner, is the work of Mr. Felkin, Mr. Wilson having contributed a few suggestions. It is not intended to claim literary merit for the following pages ; the desire of the authors being to state as simply and truthfully as possible what they observed in a part of the earth till now little known ; but which, given good roads and a just and unambitious government, will offer a field for religious and mercantile enterprises of the utmost importance to the human race.

August 24th, 1881.