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profits he made on cloth in the native markets, so that the 

 Government has this fine piece of work as a free gift. 



A most interesting and remarkable feature of Maifoni is 



FREED SLAVES WdRKlNCi l)N THE FARM 



the home for freed slaves, originated on the idea of the Hon. 

 0. Howard, and organised and carried on by Dr. Parsons as a 

 labour of love entirely independent of outside help. It was 

 started in February 1904, with the object of providing a tem- 

 porary abode for women and children, who have been liberated 

 by the British Government from slave caravans coming chiefiy 

 from Adamawa and other places upon the confines of Bornu. 

 The boys are trained as cadets, and are drilled each day and 

 taught to conform to the useful discipline of a military 

 training. To give an example of the keenness of their spirit 

 — the head boy, aged twelve, once in the absence of Dr. 



