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guise of sailors, passengers, and servants. Certain it is, at least, that the slave population of the island still keeps up, though the number of births among the slave population falls far below the deaths in any given period. And although large numbers of dhows pass daily between Zanzibar and the mainland, carrying ostensibly passengers only, yet no watch seems ever to be exercised over them, or any means employed to ascertain whether they are bond fid? passengers or only slaves in disguise. As will be seen also in the sequel, large gangs of slaves are still sent from the interior to the coast ; so that, putting these various facts together, the conclusion is inevitable, even if there were no direct proof in support of it, that there is still a very considerable trade in slaves carried on between Zanzibar and the East Coast of Africa.

There are two missions established at Zanzibar, one English and the other French. The English is under the auspices of the Universities' Mission, Bishop Steere having the general direction. There is a large school for freed slaves who have been rescued by Her Majesty's cruisers, under the management of this Mission, and the missionaries also act as chaplains to the English church, which has been built on the site of the old slave market, but they do not profess to work amongst the people of Zanzibar, their mission being to the continent of Africa, The French mission belongs