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 are taught various trades, and cultivate the surrounding orchards and gardens of acclimatisation. Even after they have become adults they remain under "the firm and wise tutelage" of the fathers, and continue to work five days in the week for the benefit of the community. The cocoanut grove surrounding the mission,

and containing about a hundred and sixty thousand plants, yields sufficient produce to supply all the wants of the colony.

Saadani, lying some 30 miles farther north, occupies a position somewhat analogous to that of Bagamoyo. Like this place, it is situated on the strait of Zanzibar, over against the island, and in the immediate vicinity of an estuary, that of the river Wami. But the roadstead is much less frequented, the local population scarcely exceeds two thousand, and here are organised few caravans for the