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18 Captain Fraser's service in the town; one is still in the school, and one turned out an incorrigible thief, was taken on board a man-of-war, and ran away from his ship at Bombay. None of these boys, except Yernon Baruti, showed any capacity for the work of a Missionary, and he has lately decided not to undertake it. Most of the boys who have since joined us are still too young for us to speak decidedly as to their future. A few seem to show sufficient steadiness and capacity to give us good hopes of their ultimate usefulness in our work; some give us grounds of apprehension, and two have gone utterly astray. Since we opened the school, fifteen have died—nearly half during the cholera time, and the rest within the last nine months. Forty-four are now actually in the school, two more are with Bishop Tozer, and two with the subdeacons at Magila. The ill-health which has been so fatal during this year has not entirely ceased; twelve are at this moment in the infirmary—four with a troublesome skin disease, the rest with obstinate sores on the leg. Three of the cases may easily become dangerous.

Among the girls four have died since the opening of the schools, all within the last twelve months. There are now twenty-one actually in school, and one is living in the house of the subdeacon who assists at Kiungani.

The details of school management having been entirely disarranged by the effects of the cyclone, the death of the Rev. R. L. Pennell, and the