3i6 Seven Years in ihc Soudan.

Arabs are so important that lie could hardly decide to abandon them in order to throw himself into the arms of the English missionaries. It is from Zanzibar that the numerous Arab caravans arrive, bringing silk, Indian carpets, wood and odoriferous oils, powder, swords and guns to be exchanged for ivory and slaves.

" When Stanley was in Uganda I was in Unyoro, and raised the Egptian flag at Magungo, taking possession of the Mwuta-Xzighe, the last basin of the Nile, in the name of my Government. Mtesa, who was alarmed and feared that our troops would advance towards the east and conquer his realm, put himself at Stanle3'''s disposal, furnishing him with all the means necessarv to carrv out his grrand exploration.

" Perhaps I am mistaken, but the departure of the missionaries of Uganda for England, which apparentlv' is meant to give a greater development to the Protestant Missions, seems to have a very different reason — but he Avho lives will see, as the French say.

" We must not deceive ourselves. Xeither the Anglican nor the Catholic Churches can at present compete with Mohammedanism, Avhich is the first step from fetishism. Our European missionaries naturally condemn slavery, polygamy, and the right to cut off heads in the flush of power, but as soon as they actively oppose such customs, and blame the king, every relation between him and them ceases, and the latter at once must think of packing up, because all their efforts are completeh' paralyzed.

"The only way to Christianize these countries, to my thinking, is colonization on a large scale, which course might counterbalance and keep down the Mussulman preponderance. It would be easier to make proselytes if the sultans, and especially the chiefs, could be persuaded by the manner in which the colonies and their commerce were carried on, of the enormous difference between the doctrine of