PREFACE
As the Universities Mission seems to have arrived at a crisis in its history, it is desirable that a clear account of its present position should be laid before those interested in its work. Such an account I have, therefore, endeavoured to draw up. We are actually at work in three distinct places: at Magila among the heathen: in Zanzibar itself we have a Girls' School, a vernacular service with an Exposition of the Gospel every Sunday afternoon, daily prayers in Swahili and in English, and a weekly Evening Service with Sermon, and Holy Communion twice in the month for the European residents. At Kiungani, close to Zanzibar, we have our Boys' School and College for Mission Students. There are, of course, regular services in the Chapel in English and in the Vernacular. We have a Printing Press at work, from which we have just issued, as the first of our school series, a Swahili Spelling Book. An Elementary Arithmetic and a First Reading Book are now in the press. We have also just begun to print Mr. Pennell's Version of Saint Luke's Gospel. Some Hymns, a First Catechism, and the Litany in Swahili, have been printed since my arrival in March 1872. Some of the boys work a saw-pit
