Identifier: throughugandatom00purv (find matches)
Title: Through Uganda to Mount Elgon
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Purvis, John Bremner
Subjects: Ethnology Missions
Publisher: London (etc.) : F. T. Unwin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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head of the village, and here he was afraid
of his mother-in-law. He smiled, somewhat
grimly I thought, but would not be persuaded
to return by the same route. The lady was
on the outlook for us, and at the same time
anxiously endeavouring to protect herself from
the shame of being gazed upon by her daughter's
husband. A curious custom no doubt, yet one
perhaps which makes for peace.
For the past five years Baganda teachers
have been working amongst these people with
encouraging results. Archdeacon Buckley and
I have baptized young men from Miro and
Bululu, on the shores of Kyoga, and have
found them bright and intelligent ; and two
years ago some Teso lads from Kumi, near
Lake Salisbury, were baptized by a Muganda
clergyman whom I had placed there.
One of these lads came to live with me and
teach me his language, but sickness intervened
and I was invalided to Europe.
Since then the C.M.S. have appointed a
European and his wife to live at Ngora, the
centre of this Southern Teso district, with a
million of people, where the first white woman
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TESO MEN AND BOYS.

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Lake Salisbury 259
the natives had ever seen—Mrs. Crabtree—was
the wonder of the age ; and where the present
lady, if not driven out by malaria, will prove
a tremendous influence for good. The perfect
friendliness of the people at Ngora may be
gathered from the fact that many were daring
enough to brave the unknown powers of the
camera. Near by is Lake Salisbury, known to th
enatives as Bisina, a not very beautiful or
expansive sheet of water except in the rainy
season when much of the surrounding land
is inundated.
I was able to trace the distinct double
connection between Lakes Salisbury and
Kyoga formed by the rivers, or arms, Agu
and Abuketi, marked on the map on pp.
220-221.
Fishermen and hippopotami hunters from
Nsoga paddle up one or other of these arms
into Salisbury.
Lakes Salisbury and Gedge are really one
sheet of water in the rainy season.
From the shores of Lake Salisbury we got
a glimpse of Mount Debasian, called Kokolyo
by the natives, rising some twenty miles
away to the westward like three huge jagged
teeth.

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