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“...the Clergymen
and other individuals whom the Committee has assisted in forming Schools in their parishes. So
numerous have been the applications for such aid, that the extent of the Society’s operations has
been limited only by the inadequacy of its funds. While the attention of the British public has
been directed to the West Indies, the amelioration of the condition of the Negro race in the
Mauritius has never excited any efforts of similar benevolence. This island, although situated
almost in the direct track between the Cape of Good Hope and India, has been, as a Slave Colony,
classed with the West Indies. The Black and Coloured population are very numerous; but they
have never enjoyed the same privileges, and opportunities for religious instruction, as their brethren
in the West Indies, and are consequently in a state of ignorance and degradation, which it is most
painful to contemplate. Missions and Schools have been established with success among tribes where
even human sacrifices and...”
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“...2
A Statement of the Moral and Religious Condition of the Free and Slave Population of the Mauritius; the Districts
into which the Island is divided; the Population, Places of Worship, Schools in each District, $c.
Population. Places of Worship, No. of At- Schools No. of No. of Protestant Their Duties.
Districts. Free. Apprentices. Total. Protestant and Catholic. tendants (Protestant). Atten- Clergymen.
(about) dants.
Port. T,onis......... 10,900 14,700 25,600 One Catholic Church . 700 One Government
School for both
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