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26 as in Zanzibar. There is nothing we should be more glad to find than a healthy location, and even a comparatively healthy spot would be at once occupied. In any case, however, so long as Zanzibar remains what it is, the Mission must have a home there of some kind. It is very probable that if, as has been often proposed, the British Grovernment should establish a colony of freed men near some convenient port, the town which would soon grow up might supplant Zanzibar as a commercial centre, in which case the Mission would, as of course, remove thither its head-quarters.

The Mission property consists of land and houses for the use of its members. We have:—

1. In Zanzibar itself, a large house in the part of the town called Shangani, used as a girls' school and a portion capable of separate occupation as lodgings for the Bishop. The house is close to the sea and a very fine one, the rooms being large and very lofty. It was procured cheaply, owing to its having been abandoned by the natives from fear of a spirit which was supposed to haunt it. Not having been occupied for some time, it was in need of much repair, and many alterations were necessary to adapt what might be described as an Arab palace to our purposes. Although so very large, we found only six rooms available for use. It was at one