Abstract
In this volume, Mr. Roscoe has given an account of some of his experiences and observations of the manners and customs of the natives of East Africa during his twenty-five years' service as a missionary in that area. In particular his aim has been to describe the condition of the country and the natives when first he took up his work. From this point of view, his book forms a useful pendant to the more strictly ethnographical works he has already published dealing with the Baganda and other Bantu tribes. The connected narrative adds colour to these analytical studies. When Mr. Roscoe first arrived in the country the Uganda railway, of course, was not in existence, and he gives a vivid picture of the difficulties encountered by the traveller, arising both from the character of the country and the untrustworthiness of the native carrier, the only means of transport. To many of his readers the most interesting section of the book will be that dealing with the events, of which he was an eye-witness, leading to our assumption of the Protectorate over Uganda. In this account, curiously enough, Sir Frederick Lugard is mentioned only incidentally.
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