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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 ob-

served in a part of the earth till now little known ; but which, given good roads and a just and un-

ambitious government, will offer a field for religious and mercantile enterprises of the utmost importance

to the human race.

August 24th, 1881.