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are Indians and Goanese,[1] and the example of some, I might say many, is not at all conducive to steadfastness and morality among the Baganda. Nor is the example of some Englishmen what it ought to be, considering that they come from Christian England. The same must be said with regard to some of the Germans. I have heard it observed by the native Christians of several Europeans, ‘Why should we be compelled to have such men sent up here? We have no men amongst ourselves who would live worse lives than these men live.’
These points are of the more importance because we are in the midst of a time of testing and trial. The fact that the country has been redivided under the
- ↑ Goa is a Portuguese colony on the west coast of India, some distance north of Bombay, and the Portuguese, having intermarried with Indians, have produced a race of half castes, who are usually called Goanese. Many of them are professing Roman Catholics.
