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Earlier figures are not available.

General information concerning the island may be obtained from the following: Martin, The British Possessions in Africa , Vol. IV.; Unienville, Statistique de l'île Maurice et ses dépendances ; Epinay, Renseignements pour servir à l'histoire de l'île de France ; Decotter, Géographie de Maurice et de ses dépendances ; Chalmers, A History of Currency in the British Colonies ; Anderson, The Sugar Industry of Mauritius ; Keller, Madagascar, Mauritius, and other East African Islands ; The Mauritius Almanac ; The Mauritius Civil Lists ; and Annual Colonial Reports .

For a brief discussion of these disorders see the present writer's "Border Troubles Along the Rio Grande, 1848-1860," in The Southwestern Historical Quarterly , XXIII, October, 1919, pp. 91-111.

Sen. Jour. , 38 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 66, passim .

Cong. Globe , 38 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 673.

Sen. Report No. 8, 38 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 2.

This seems to have been only one of some three or four such undertakings attempted at the time. See House Doc. No. 169, 54 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 44-45.

Elsewhere written W. H. Ellis.

Ellis's contract promised more than this in case of larger families.

For the contract between Ellis and the company see House Doc. No. 169, 54 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 46-48; for that between Ellis and the colonists see ibid. , pp. 4-5. There are only a few minor differences in the two.

Ibid. , p. 59.

Dwyer's Report, and enclosures, ibid. , pp. 42 ff.

Ibid. , pp. 23, 36, 42.

Burke to Uhl, May 28, 1895, and enclosure, ibid. , pp. 2-3.

Olney to Butler, June 17, 1895, ibid. , p. 5.

It appears that only one band had tried to escape prior to July 18 or 19.

Sparks to Uhl, June 24, 1895, and enclosure, ibid. , pp. 6-11.

Ibid. , pp. 12, 16.

Ibid. , pp. 17-20.

Sparks to Uhl, June 4, 1895, and enclosure, pp. 13-14.

Ibid. , p. 65.

Sparks to Uhl, June 24, 1895, and enclosure, pp. 42, 65-66.

President Cleveland, in his message of December 2, 1895, urged an appropriation for the reimbursements of the railroads, and on January 27, 1896, he sent a special message to Congress with reference to the matter. Richardson, Messages and Papers , IX, 634, 664.

An appropriation for urgent deficiencies which was passed on February 26, 1896, contained the following interesting item: "For the payment of the cost of transportation furnished by certain railway companies in connection with the failure of the scheme for the colonization of negroes in Mexico, necessitating their return to their homes in Alabama, … five thousand and eighty-seven dollars and nine cents." 29 U. S. Statutes at Large , p. 18.

Letters and other Writings of James Madison , III, 138.

Ibid. , 170.

Ibid. , 239.

Letters and other Writings of James Madison , III, 168.

Letters and other Writings of James Madison , I, 542-543.

Ibid. , III, 121.

Letters and other Writings of James Madison , III, 122-124.

Letters and other Writings of James Madison , III, 133-138.

Ibid. , III, 170.

Letters and other Writings of James Madison , III, 190.

Letters and other Writings of James Madison , III, 193-194.

Letters and other Writings of James Madison , III, 239, 240.

Letters and other Writings of James Madison , III, 310-315.

These peculiarities, it would seem, are not of equal force in the South American States, owing, in part, perhaps, to a former degradation, produced by colonial vassalage; but principally to the lesser contrast of colours. The difference is not striking between that of many of the Spanish and Portuguese Creoles and that of many of the mixed breed.—J. M.

Letters and other Writings of James Madison , III, 495-498.

Letters and other Writings of James Madison , III, 541-542.

Letters and other Writings of James Madison , III, 2-3.

Letters and other Writings of James Madison , IV, 60.

Ibid. , IV, 188.

Letters and other Writings of James Madison , IV, 192.

Letters and other Writings of James Madison , IV, 213-214.

Letters and other Writings of James Madison , IV, 274-279.

Letters and other Writings of James Madison , IV, 301.

American Convention Abolition Societies. Minutes, 1796, pp. 12, 14.

American Convention of Abolition Societies, Minutes of, 1797, pp. 16 and 17.

American Convention Abolition Societies, Minutes, 1804, pp. 30-33.

Minutes of Proceedings of Tenth American Convention for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, 1805, pp. 36-39.

Minutes of the American Convention Abolition Societies, 1818. Pages 43 and 47.

The Liberator , December, 10, 1836.