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castes in all the schools, and quite mixed. After this 

 we went to College, where young men are preparing 

 for degrees of the University under Dr. Haug and Mr. 

 Wordsworth ; then to the Roman Catholic Orphanage, 

 where 200 girls are assembled, clothed, and fed under a 

 French Lady Superior- — dormitory clean and well aired, 

 but many had scrofulous-looking sore eyes ; then home 

 to meet some friends whom Lady Frere had invited, to 

 save me the trouble of calling on them. Saw Mr. 

 Cowan's daughter." 



" 21st June 1864. — . . . Had a conversation with the 

 Governor after breakfast about the slaving going on 

 towards the Persian Gulf. His idea is that they are now 

 only beginning to put a stop to slavery — they did not 

 know of it previously. . . . The merchants of Bombay 

 have got the whole of the trade of East Africa thrown on 

 their hands, and would, it is thought,, engage in an effort 

 to establish commerce on the coast. The present Sultan 

 is, for an Arab, likely to do a good deal. He asked if I 

 would undertake to be consul at a settlement, but I 

 think I have not experience enough for a position of that 

 kind among Europeans." 



On returning to Bombay, he saw the missionary 

 institutions of the Scotch Established and Free Churches, 

 and arranged with Dr. Wilson of the latter mission to 

 take his two boys, Chuma and Wikatani. He arranged 

 also that the " Lady Nyassa," which he had not yet sold, 

 should be taken care of, and borrowing £133, 10s. for the 

 passage-money of himself and John Beid, one of his men, 

 embarked for old England. 



At Aden considerable rain had fallen lately ; he 

 observed that there was much more vegetation than when 

 he was there before, and it occurred to him that at the 

 time of the Exodus the same effects probably followed 

 the storms of rain, hghtning, and hail in Egypt. Egypt 

 was very far from green, so that Dr. Stanley must have 



