Evening star., 1932-12-19
REV. ANSON STOKES.
WRITES Of AFRICA.
Canon of Washington Cathe-
draI Describes Travels Dur
ing Lecture Tour.

A Christmas letter, written from
Fhino Camp, Albert Nile, Uganda, East
Africa. has been received from Rev.
AnsoE Phelps Stokes, D. D., canon of
Washington Cathedral. Dr.. Stokes Is
in Africa TO give q series of lectures
at universities and colleges under
auspices of the Carnegie Foundation.
He is accompanied by Mrs. Stokes and
their daughter, Miss Olivia phelps
Stokes
Here We are" DR.. Stokes writes. 'on
our way from Central Africa to Egypt
just north of Lake Albert We reach
tomorrow place called Juba in the
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. where the week
y Cape to Cairo airplane stops for mail:
II gives me an opportunity to send
Christmas greetings.
we have been having perfectly
marvellous trip. Thus far. with the
Sudan and Egypt still ahead of us, we
have completed about 10000 miles in
Africa-2.700 by motor. $3.50 by rail.
800 by boat and 220 by air. 1t has been
pretty strenuous, owing to the very
large number of addresses. conferences.
sermons and interviews that have been
called for; also, to the many schools
and missions which we have been eX
pected to inspect-but it has been eX-
traordinarily stimulating and worth
while.
Travels Described.
I'VE started at the Cape spending
three months in the Union and the
Rhodesias South Africa, where most
of my Carnegie lecturers duties were
centered and then had trip through
the Belgian Congo. including five days
going down the Lualaba, or Upper Con-
60 River We then went across Lake
Tanganyke and Tanganyke Territory
to ar-Es-Salaam, with visit by air
plane to Zanzibar, fascinating island
with distinctly Oriental atmosphere;
then west by train and motor through
Kenya and Uganda. The latter has
been extraordinarily interesting from
the standpoint OF Christian missions
Here our church has all of the regular
Protestant mission work. From the
cathedral hill in Kampala. as CEN
ter. great missionary enterprise has
been conducted including schools,
churches hospitals End a virtually
self-supporting and self-governing Ang-
lican church under inspiring Leadership
and with nearly hundred natlVe
clergy. It has been my privilege to
preach scores OF times. including SER
mons. in seven Anglican cathedrals
from Cape Town to Kampala; the lat.
ter one of the most inspiring places OF
worship in connection with the world
wide missionary movement.
We have been privileged to meet
oil types and kinds of interesting
people. including all the governors
of the various colonies, missionary
leaders, business men and repre-
sentative natives. The higher British
officials and the leading missionaries
have made a very marked impression
on us for the efficiency of their work
and their high ideallsm. l am return
Ing impressed more than ever with tne
vitallv important work OF the ChrStian
MISSIONS
Falls a Magnificent Sight.
"Our last few days before getting on
the steamer for the Nile were spent
near Lake Albert We visited the Muir
Gibson Falls. where the Nile with all
the water of the Lake Victoria Nyanza-
the second largest lake in the world
breaks through a gorge only 20 feet
brood. It is magnificent slgnt.
Nearby we saw many elephants. hun
dred7 of hipPos, crocodiles. etc. We also
had visit to the Omukama. or King.
Of the Banyaro people. a native Chris
tian ruler Of high ideals and great
strength of character. He presented
us with many gifts. To show you now
far We now are from the ordinary CEN
ters of commerce it might interest you
to know that a telegram I sent from
the port on Lake Albert to Juba, at
the head of regular navigation on the,
Nile. not over 400 miles away, had tos
be routed via Mombssa. on the east
coast of Africa. Bombay, in India; Alden,
in Arabia: Port Sudsn, on the Red Sea,
and Khartoum in Upper Egypt But
We are travelling on most comfortable
little steamer, the only passengers. ex-
cept for one government offcial-a fine
type Of English official, whom we lett
at a small native village yesterday. 1t
uas picturesque sight seeing him, clad
IN a khaki shirt shorts and