Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

320 APPENDIX.
1341. " Tlie Bishop of Mauritius brought the
matter before you ?
"— " He brought the matter
before us in 1867, and since that time we have
been perpetually working to bring pubhc opinion
to bear upon it."
1342. Mr. Kinnaird.] "Is there any other
place besides the Seychelles which would be
suitable for the establishment of schools for
the
liberated slave children ? "— " I might say at the
Mauritius itself there is a large establishment,
which has been superintended by our missionaries,
and there the Mauritius Government
have done what the Government did at Sierra
Leone, namely, they have given 6cl. a-head per
diem for every child we would take and train.
That has been carried on for a long time very
successfully indeed; and Governor Barclay, in
one of his letters, says, if we could establish
a similar institution at the Seychelles, he has no
doubt that the Mauritius Government would
make a grant for the purpose.
1343. Mr. Kennaway.] " You would prefer
that any settlement of slaves should be under
the British flag?"— "We take that position,
because a liberated slave is a British subject;
the present Act of Parliament requires that
slaves shall be liberated in British dominions;
that is the point from which we start."
1344. " Do you think, supposing the liberated