CHAPTER V.

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” 144