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16 We have taken in as many boys and girls as our funds allowed, and Bishop Tozer bought some land with a view to planting out on it grown-up persons; whether more is to be done in this direction must depend on our subscribers at home. I think myself that, in our present poverty, the feeding and lodging of any except very promising children, who are likely to become Missionaries or teachers, are not proper charges on the Mission funds.

The schools at Zanzibar were formed by Bishop Tozer for the purpose of educating Missionaries and teachers and their future wives, for work among the inland tribes. The scholars are now beginning to attain an age at which they may be actively employed. Three of the boys have been set apart as subdeacons; of these one was lost by the cholera, the other two are both married; one, John Swedi, is at present acting as a sort of assistant chaplain at the school at Kiungani; the other, Francis Mabruki, is working at the Shambala Mission station at Magila.

It was always hoped and intended that these schools should be filled by the children of converts, or by promising young people from the Mission stations among the inland tribes. The only scholars we have yet had answering to this description were three Nyika lads from the Rev. John Rebmann's