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At 'L2Siz-^2,r^ schools have been established, a printing- 
press set to work, translations carried on, and native youth 
trained for usefulness among their own people. A station 
and settlement for liberated slaves was subsequently formed 
on the mainland, to which was given the name of Frere 
Town. The freed slaves are here trained to read and study 
school-books, prepared in the Swahili tongue, with a view 
to their being fitted for positions among the Africans speak- 
ing the Swahili language, as pastors, teachers, evangelists, 
and handicraftsmen. 
The American Missionary Association of New York have 
projected a new mission among the Latookas, Dinkas, and 
Berri people on the Nile basin, to be called the Arthington 
Mission, in acknowledgment of the fact that Mr. R. Arthing- 
ton, of Leeds, first proposed and endowed it with a starting- 
fund of ;^3,ooo. The tribes living in this district are 
generally favourable to Englishmen, whether coming among 
them as travellers, merchants, or missionaries. The mission 
was to be supplied with a small screw-steamer, and to be 
reached by the Nile route. The scheme seemed very pro- 
mising, and was supported by the people of the American 
Association most heartily. Four friends in America gave 
;^i,ooo each, and an English gentleman 1,000, to place 
the Arthington Mission on a substantial footing. Freed 
and educated ex-slaves are to be sent out to the Nile valley, 
under American superintendence, in order to lead the 
African negroes into a higher, better life. It is anticipated 
and hoped that by this means a new and very stimulating 
force will be introduced into the midst of the people. 
American negroes will thus become missionaries to those of 
their own race, who sit in darkness and the shadow of 
death. 
Turning now to the West Coast, and seeking to enter 
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