22 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

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 main-

land, 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