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THE AFRICAN QUEEN BUILT THE
CHAPEL.
The Moravian publishes an interesting
account, translated from one of
its missionary periodicals, of a visit paid
by one of the missionaries of that
Church to the queen of the Province of
Uganda. Says the account:
"Hitherto the potentate had not been
well disposed towards the mission. Bro.
Brauer had had a good deal to suffer
from direct attacks and insinuations on
the part of her advisers. This made the
work more difficult at his station, and
also in the immediate neighborhood,
especially as many of the people showed
a lack of sincerity. Later on, however,
her majesty became quieter. There was
also a good deal of work being done in
the residential village, for the queen was
having a two-storied house built for herself.
For this reason there was a cessation
of the hidden attacks of her advisers.
"When Bro. Brauer came to think over
the situation he found that the cause of
the princess' behavior was probably the
belief on her part that the missionaries
were not paying due respect to i-er posi
tion. She may have got this notion in
mc moi piate iruiu me raci mat so iar
no leading missionary from Ipole had
been to see her. True, the station is
situated from five to six hours' journey
from her residence,, so that a visit there
would have taken up a good deal of
time; but all the same it was evidently
a mistake that no one had visited her.
In the second place, when Ipole was being
started as a mission station, a good
many foreigners, so to speak, had come
along, people from Urambo, and these
had erected a regular fortification round
the station. Besides which the place had
only been occupied by one missionary
couple, and they had been so fully occupied
with the Urambo people that they
had not been able to pay much attention
to the native Ugunda folk. For
these reasons, possibly, the idea had got
abroad that the missionaries did not re
npcti uvr majesty.
"Accordingly, Bro. Brauer set out to
pay her a visit. Two messengers were
sent ahead to give notice of his coming,
whilst others went before him with a
present (an ox and a calf). At 6:30 on
the morning of June 16 the missionary
set out. A few people carried his tent,
the beds and some pillows, also cooking
utensils, etc., and provisions. For the
most part the road took them through
"pori," or sparsely wooded country.
They passed only two native villages en
route. Half an hour's journey from the
residence they struck the government
high road leading from Tabora to Bisraarksburg.
Here they came across the
first of the queen's scouts, who, after
delivering himself of a short military
rrMtlnr l"V?mhn hwano'M nntolrlv Ata.
appeared again, in order to anounce to
bis mistress the approach of the European.
Whilst still some distance away from
the residence, the travelers could hear
the big drum. The queen's subjects took
PH. August 25, 1909.
up their places on both sides of the
road, forming a double line, which it
took ten minutes to pass. Down this
line the saltana herself came to meet
the missionary. However, she did not
come on foot, for she is very stout. She
came riding on the shoulders of a big
strong man! By her side trnttert n ?*>? .
vant, whose duty it was to keep the rays
of the sun off her majesty by means of
a perfect monster of an umbrella. From
time to time he would pass the umbrella
right over her head, and again he
would give her a blow with it in the
back of her neck; he even managed
once to knock her turban off her head!
But all this apparently did not disturb
the equilibrium of anybody, for they all
remained as solemn as could be.
"the greeting extended to the visitor
by the queen was of the heartiest. 'She
rode in front of me,' continues the missionary,
'into the residence on the
shoulders of her two-legged steed, and
I had to set up a bit of a run in order to
keep up with them. In the large reception
room of the palace another cordial
welcome was extended to me, and I was
introduced to all the great people and
the royal councillors as 'Bwana magisi'
fMr VI or n, 1 *
x..... 1..CX uiauci ; anu a greai iriena
of the queen's.
" 'Then I was requested to take my
seat next to her on a capacious stool,
whereupon I commenced to explain to
her my reason for coming to see her,
which was that 1 wanted to pay the
princess a visit in her own residence,
since no other European had so far come
to pay his respects to her. Thereupon
she tapped me on the knee and told me
how pleased she was to see me, for she
had not liked it that hitherto no Ipole
missionary had been to see her. To
which I replied that in future this would
be done by every missionary who came
to live in her country. This again gave
her an opportunity of expressing her
pleasure.
" 'I arrived at a quarter to one o'clock,
and she kept me there until a quarter
to three. Then I asked to be allowed to
present to her my gift?an ox and a
calf from the mission station, and, from
my wife and myself, twenty rupees id
return for an ox which she had sent us
when our little girl was born. It
seemed odd to me as a stranger that, as
often as the queen went out and returned
to her place again, all the chiefs
and councillors in the apartment rose
to their feet and, on her reappearance,
'clapped their hands three times and
greeted her with the word, 'Kashinde.'
This was repeated several times. Imagine
sixty or eighty people clapping loud
ly with their hands each time!
" 'After a somewhat iate breakfast, at
3 p. m., the under-king showed me about
the residence and explained everything
tn mo Tho Hmimo n/nro dIsa nK/vmw
W ??W. uw Ul MMO n?i? UlOU DUV1TU UlUi
The largest of these reached to close
under my* arms, and two men could
scarcely reach around it with their
arms. There was a terrible noise, too,
when all six drums were beaten together.
They were hung up near by on four very
large spirit-huts. Huts for spirits of