58 (No. 96 PRESENT CONDITIONS (2) All threemissions maintain schoolsfor both boys and girls. The Universities' Mission has a Teachers' Training College and a High School in Zanzibar town , besides schools in villages. Industrial education receives most attention from the Friends' Mission on Pemba.

(3) There are five Indian schools, assisted by volun tary contributions or annual grants by com munities, for both boys and girls. The Govern ment has no kind of control over these, and does not inspect them . (4 ) Thereare three private schools for Indians, and an indefinite number of private Moslem schools in the hands of local teachers, where little but an unintelligent repetition of the Koran is taught.

The total number of pupils receiving instruction in all the schools together (exclusive of the Koran schools, for which no figures exist) was 1985 in 1913 (1526 boys, 459 girls),made up as follows : Government schools, 632 (488 Africans, 144 Indians) . Mission schools, 419 . Indian (including private Indian) schools, 934 .

Education being voluntary, the bulk of the children , at least of the native Swahili population, remains un educated, save for the Koran schools. Attendance of those enrolledis irregular, especially in the clove-pick ing season . In spiteof official and missionary encour agement, regrettable indifference to educational facili ties is shown by the inhabitants of the Protectorate. This is the more to be deplored as the employment, whether of Arabs, of Swahili, or of Indians , in Govern ment service must depend on educational progress.