Text extracted from opening pages of book: EIGHTEEN - YEARS IN - - UGANDA & EAST AFRICA BY ALFRED R. TUCKER CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD HON. D. D. OXFORD AND DURHAM j HON. LL. D. CAMB. BISHOP OF UGANDA WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR AND A MAP NEW EDITION LONDON EDWARD ARNOLD: to tie Infria 1911 [ A // rights r Whence but from Thee, the true and only God, And from the faith derived through Him who bled Upon the Gross, this marvellous advance Of good from evil ? as if one extreme We left, the other gained. WOKDSWORTH. TO MY WIFE PREFATORY NOTE ALTHOUGH this work touches, not infrequently, upon events having to do with the political, material, and spiritual history, advancement, and development of Uganda and East Africa, it does not profess to be a complete record of them. It is simply a story of Episcopal Missionary life and work in Equatorial Africa. It has been put together in the midst of many dis tractions distractions inseparable from the conditions of a life such as that which it has been my lot to live in the wilds of Central Africa during the past eighteen years. I trust that this may be held sufficient to excuse the rough, and I fear often disjointed, way in which my narrative is presented to the reader. I acknowledge with gratitude the help which I have received from the study of the publications of the Church Missionary Society that society to which Uganda owes so much; the works of the Rev. R. P. Ashe, Two Kings of Uganda and Chronicles of Uganda; Mrs. Harrison's Mackay of Uganda, and that very interesting work by Ham Mukasa, Uganda's Katikiro in England. My warmest thanks are also due to the Rev. E. Millar for much valuable assistance gladly rendered. A. R. T.AUTHOR'S PREFACE THE exhaustion of the larger edition of this work has led to the issue of the present volume. A postscript has been added, bringing the story up to date, and passages of less permanent interest have been excised. The book, however, as a record of Missionary work is practically the same as the earlier edition. It is earnestly hoped that through this volume in its less expensive form a larger circle of readers may be reached, and a more widespread interest aroused in what the Lambeth Con ference has described as the primary work of the Church viz., its missionary work the first of all the tasks we have to do. He feels with an ever-increasing conviction that until the Church realizes that the foremost of her tasks is the evangelization of the nations her work in the homeland must of necessity be something out of keeping something altogether out of harmony with the symmetry and beauty of the divine con ception of the Church as a whole. If this book should in some degree, however small, aid in the realization of this truth, the Author will be profoundly thankful. A. R. T.