Mrs. Fisher has shown us how a devoted couple whose hearts are filled with a longing to win souls for the Saviour can face dangers, and cut themselves off from the common comforts of home, not only with patience but with cheerfulness. No one will feel the playfulness and the sense of humour with which she often describes the most trying situations to be inconsistent with the more serious purpose of her Missionary life, or to unfit her for the gracious ministry of comforting the sorrowful, teaching the ignorant, and healing the sick, in which she has been engaged. If each reader of these pages will let them raise before the conscience such questions as these, “What have _I_ done, and what can _I_ do to help such blessed work” or “Why should _I_ not follow in such steps myself,” and if such questions be honestly answered as in the presence of the Lord, I cannot doubt that results still more wonderful than those which this book describes will find a record in the near future,—that may be even the Coming of the Lord. May the Holy Spirit moving in many lives bring this to pass. H. E. FOX, _Hon. Sec., C.M.S._ CONTENTS CHAPTER. PAGE. I. A JOURNEY ON THE UGANDA RAILROAD FOUR YEARS AGO 1 II. ON LAND AND LAKE 11 III. MENGO, UGANDA 22 IV. TORO, THE LAND OF THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON 31 V. THE COUNTRY 41 VI. HOME LIFE 50 VII. ROYAL LIFE 59 VIII. THE WOMEN OF TORO 69 IX. CHILD LIFE 79 X. RELIGION 84 XI. LANGUAGE 92 XII. FESTIVITIES IN TORO 97 XIII. TRAMP I. TO THE ALBERT EDWARD LAKE 106 XIV. TRAMP II. HOLIDAYS 119 XV. TRAMP III. TRAMP THROUGH THE FOUR KINGDOMS OF THE PROTECTORATE 128 XVI. TRAMP IV. TOWARDS THE PIGMIES 151 XVII. IN DARKEST AFRICA. THE PIGMIES (BATWA) AND THEIR (BAMBUBA) NEIGHBOURS 161 XVIII. A CLIMB TO THE SNOWS 173 XIX. MISSIONARY WORK 188 XX. MEDICAL WORK 199 XXI. SCHOLASTIC WORK 211 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS A GROUP OF BAGANDA. A GROUP OF MASAIS. A GROUP OF PIGMY WOMEN. A MUBIRA LADY: AN AFTERNOON CALLER. A NANDI FAMILY. A NATIVE OF BALEGA: THE FIRST TO BE BAPTISED OF HIS RACE. A PEEP AT THE SNOWS.