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but those referred to are not " domestic slaves,"
but poor creatures dragged from tlieir homes
in the interior, and up from the Mozambique
to Quiloa and the Zanzibar markets, to find their
way to the northern markets, in legal as well
as illegal traders, by twos, by tens, and by
thousands.
It is seen by the numbers given that the sum
total of slaves set free in two years, 18G8-69,
amounted to 2179. I am not acquainted
with the exact number landed at each place,
more than half of them I
believe were landed
at Seychelles, the remainder—with the exception
of a few taken to Bombay, and a few children,
selected for his school by Bishop Tozer, in 1868,
to Zanzibar—were carried to Aden. What
has become of them? and. Have we in any way
improved their condition? are fair questions;
there is no institution on this coast similar to
that at Sierra Leone on the Western.
At Seychelles, however, I ascertained that
the rescued slaves were farmed out to the
Creoles for five years, after which they were
supposed to be able to sliift for themselves.