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as being suitable for a depot for liberated
slaves."
1338. " Would your Society be prepared to
send agents to the Seychelles for the instruction
and civihzation of liberated slaves who might
be sent there ? "— " We have an agent there now,
and he was quite ready to set to work, but a
stop was put to the whole matter by the
Government refusing to send any more slaves
to the Seychelles.
slaves had been sent to the
If any number of liberated
Seychelles we were
prepared to have applied for a sufficient number
of lads and children to train and teach, with
the hope, at some future time, of then' returning
to Africa. And I say this because the Committee
may perhaps not be aware, that Dr.
Livingstone, when he last went to Africa, took
with him nine lads from our institution in
Bombay; that is the institution to which the
Government of Bombay sent slave children
captured in
the Indian Ocean; and from that
institution Dr. Livingstone selected nine lads to
accompany him in his travels into the interior
of Africa, and who are now ^vith him ; and in a
report in 18G(), by Dr. Livingstone, which is
be found in the papers before the Committee,
he mentions that one of those lads met his own
uncle at the very village from which he had
been torn as a child, and the uncle, finding the
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