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118 experience once. Whenever a patient goes to the surgery, he or she is accompanied by six or seven relations or neighbours. On one occasion some men brought a wounded companion, explaining his condition as due to one of their unfortunate fights among themselves. The bullet was extracted and examined. "Oh," said the doctor, "but this not one of your bullets—this is a dum-dum," and then the man had to admit that it came from a British rifle. Undoubtedly, the medical missions afford the best means of reaching the obstinate and difficult classes. They reach them by kindness—there is no other way."

"Do you find that the C.M.S. meets with much hostility from other missions in the field?"

"No; although we don't attack the Roman Catholics, the Roman Catholics attack us. They gave us some trouble at one time in Uganda. But I have not heard any serious complaints lately. The area of their work is limited, and I doubt if their influence is extending. It has certainly no such hold on the body of the people as a Christianity which takes the Bible for its supreme authority can gain. The Roman Catholics, you know, look upon us as being as much outside the Church as the heathen. Among Protestant missions there is all over the world what is known as the comity of missions, i.e., the different missionary societies agree not to interfere with the area in which others are