pay for church building, or, indeed, for any Native Church expenses. If the Church in Uganda is to be a living Church, it must realise that it must pay all its own expenses, that it is the Church of the country, and not a Church to be supported by English funds.
Just a word or two in passing about the cowrie shell currency. There are great numbers of Indian rupees and pice in the country, which are being largely used; but the natives must have something of a very small value. For instance, a man can buy sufficient tobacco for the day for one or two cowrie shells, of which, say, twenty-two go to a farthing, or if he wants a meal of bananas or plantains he can buy sufficient for five cowrie shells. He could not, therefore, afford to pay one pice for these commodities, as one pice equals a farthing. The Government sacrificed some £7,000 sterling by burning cowries to the amount, some time
