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be invaluable to all future missionaries and promoters of civilisation in that 

 region. During the last three years the mission had been greatly strengthened 

 and extended by the Church Missionary Society. The Rev. W". Price, wl>o 

 at the Church Missionary Society's Mission at Nassick, near Bombay, trained 

 the "Nassick Boys" who so nobly brought home Livingstone's body, had lately 

 transplanted to Mombasa a considerable colony of liberated slaves found in 

 slave dhows captured by English cruisers, and made over to his care for edu- 

 cation at Nassick. Their children had been carefully trained by him, in the 

 Christian religion as well as in various educational arts, and the establishment 

 at Mombasa promised to become a most valuable base of operations. 



At Mombasa in the last two years £7,060 had been spent, and the staff 

 of the mission consisted of two ordained missionaries, one layman, Com- 

 mander Bussell, R.N., one medical man, and a schoolmaster, all Europeans, 

 beside several native Christians educated at Nassick. If the establishment 

 prospered as it promised to do, it might prove a great centre of civilisation 

 and Christianity, which missions might radiate into the interior. One such 

 branch had been already projected by the Church Missionary Society (who 

 proposed to establish a mission in the country of Uganda and Karague, be- 

 tween the Lakes Victoria and Albert). In answer to a special appeal 

 for the purpose, £13,000 had been collected. The Universities' Mission, 

 under Bishop Steere, was one result of the effect produced on the Church by 

 Livingstone's great journey. Now at Zanzibar, Bishop Steere had collected, 

 and, in part, printed by the hands of the educated negro Christians who were 

 once slaves, a most valuable series of elementary educational and devotional 

 works in the native dialects of East Africa, translations of portions of the 

 Scripture and liturgy, grammars, vocabularies, school books, &c, all of the 

 utmost practical value to missionaries, travellers, and educated natives. 

 Bishop Steere was building a church on the site of the former slave market, 

 and had, four miles from Zanzibar, an agricultural settlement of adult free 

 slaves, and a school for girls and infants. A mile and a half from Zanzibar 

 he had a boys' school and printing press, and a station at Magila, on the 

 mainland to the north-west of Zanzibar, and about forty miles in a direct 

 line from the coast. The European staff of the Universities' Mission con- 

 sisted of Bishop Steere, four ordained missionaries, two schoolmasters, a mas- 

 ter printer and master carpenter, and two ladies, who superintended the 

 schools. Bishop Steere proposed to establish another station on the main- 

 land to the north or north-east of lake Nyassa, and the plan, suggested by Ids 

 journey of exploration was, in fact, a realisation of one of Livingstone's 

 great ideas. 



Next in order of date and establishment on this coast, was the French 

 Roman Catholic Mission, a large and a well-organised institution. There 

 was a large farm of several hundred acres, schools for girls and boys, 

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