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same journey I discovered the bones of Bishop Hannington in the village of Kavirondo. When death overtook him, Bishop Hannington was, of course, on his way to Uganda, and had arrived at Lubas, where he was detained. Word was sent by the Chief, Lubas, of the Basoga tribe, to Mwanga, the King of Uganda, that a European was in his hands, and inquiring what he was to do with him. The order went back, Kill him/ and straightway Bishop Hannington and forty of his men were speared to death. It is a noteworthy fact that we have now a mission station almost upon the very spot where Hannington was murdered, and it is still more interesting to record that that same Chief, Lubas, is at the present time under Christian in struction there. Well, to proceed with the story. After a great deal of trouble we got the spot pointed out where poor Hannington s remains were interred, and then we only heard in secret. There was much fear on the part of the Chief as to what we were likely to do. He thought he might be accused of some complicity in the murder, and for some time denied that the bones were anywhere near in fact, that he knew anything about them. It eventually transpired that the bones were deposited almost a hundred miles away from the spot where Bishop Hannington was murdered. On their exhumation, our party carried the remains on to Uganda, where, on New Year s day in 1893, I accorded them Christian burial outside our Cathedral Church.&quot;

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