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Mauritius,' but I do not know of any efforts
being made towards benefiting tlie negroes
there,^ beyond freeing them, and obtaining
employment for tliem. They find their way,
much in the same manner as at Seychelles,
amongst the French planters,^ where they
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You are aware that two or three cargoes of rescued
slaves were discharged at Mauritius seven or eight years
ago, and the children sent to the Powder Mills Asylum : a
very large proportion of them soon died, and many were
afterwards carried off by the epidemic." (Extract from
Letter of the Eev. S. Hobbs.)
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A lady long resident in the Mauritius informs me
that the captured slaves brought there were treated with
the greatest kindness and sent to the Orphan Asylum at the
Pamplemousses, under the care of Mr, and Mrs. Ansorge,
where, as soon as they could be made to understand anything,
their religious education was most carefully attended
to ;
some of them were taught trades at the asylum, others
were hired out as domestic servants, and every care taken
to place them where they would be kindly treated. It
must, howevei', be remembered that a very small proportion
of liberated negroes have been taken to that island for many
years.
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"In the case of those who are sent to the Mauritius, I
believe, they cost us nothing ; the plantei's give a premium
which covers the whole expense of maintaining them.
"73. Mr. Kinnaird.'] You have heard no complaint of
their treatment in the Mauritius ?—No ; on the contrary,
I believe the negroes are happy there.
" 74. The Mauritius is a very excellent outlet for these