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Title: Eighteen years in Uganda & East Africa
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Tucker, Alfred Robert, 1849-1914
Subjects: Church of England Missions -- Africa, East Africa, East -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Edward Arnold
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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pressed forward with allthe means at our disposal; so that whereas in 1895 hardly ahundred children were receiving secular education at our hands,in 1900 12,000 were under instruction. Training in industrial work, too, we also considered to be ameans to the great end in view—viz., the equipment of thewhole man for the battle of life. The commencement of thiswork has already been referred to. Since its initiation a con-siderable development had taken place. At the beginning ofthe new century Martin Hall thus described the IndustrialMission and its work : The hill of Nviri Bulangc is situated about three-quarters ofa mile to the west of Namirembe Hill, and is crowned with thewell-constructed buildings of the Industrial Mission. At thenorth end of the levelled summit stands the house of the super-intendent of the industrial work, Mr. K. Borup, to whose untiringiii;lustry and mechanical skill much of the success is due. Oneither side of the open space runs a long building containing the
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A NEW CENTURY AND A NEW ERA 289 various workshops, dormitories, and class-rooms of the appren-tices. On the left, as you face Mr. Borups house, is a buildingcontaining two carpenters shops, from which some excellentwork has been turned out, the results of which may be seenthroughout the Bishops new house, the door and window-frames,as well as the panelled doors and shutters and not a little of thefurniture, having been made by the apprentices of Bulange.All the woodwork in the beautiful new hospital is also theirhandiwork. There is also a printing-office in the building, con-taining four hand-presses, a cutting-machine, and a machinefor sewing books with wire. Here a good deal of printing isdone for the Government—e.g., the whole of the new NationalConstitution, regimental orders, return forms, etc., is the workof the Bulange boys, who make excellent compositors. At thepresent time they are engaged in printing a native commentaryon St. Matthews Gospel and a first reading-book in Lut

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