to see a Christian lad in Uganda ill-treat a dumb animal.
Then, Christianity has made an enormous difference in the dress of the people. Sir H. M. Stanley, on his first visit, noticed the people better clothed than their neighbours. Their clothing was, for the most part, the bark of a tree, just as is worn by the man in the illustration, which shows him stripping off the bark of a common wild fig tree, full of rubber sap, for the purpose of making one of these cloths. When stripped off, the bark is taken into a hut, laid on a log of wood let into the ground for solidity, and then is hammered out with a ribbed wooden mallet, which spreads it until it becomes, almost like cloth, though more like leather in texture. This was the national dress, varied by sheep and goat skins, which the natives are very clever at tanning. But these dresses will not wash, and Christians consider that they should dress
