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Mauritius-The Introduction of Labour from India-Machinery and Guano-Population-Revenue Exceeds the Expenditure Considerably-Immigration Crimps-Coloured Ball-The Key to India-The Governor of Réunion offers to Garrison "the Isle of France"-Port Louis-Two Bishops-Bad Hôtels-"Dieu et Mon Droit"-"Trumpeters before Travellers"-"There, you Poor Devil! "-The Colonel's Wedding-day-British Barque "Sutton" Opens a New Description of Slave-Trade-The Gallant Affair of the "Sarah Sands."
The history of the Island of Mauritius, or-as the French will insist upon calling it-the Isle of France, is too well known to be even briefly alluded to here. But as this island, from its position in the Indian Ocean, has been hitherto looked upon as the key, or stepping-stone, to our possessions in the East, a short statement of its present state may not be unacceptable to the general reader; more especially as this island, together with that of Barbadoes, are the two great striking examples of the success of the British emancipation of the slaves, when followed up by an adequate supply of free labour.