§ MAJOR ANSTRUTHER-GRAYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any Report has been received from the trustworthy agent who was sent to the Galapagos Islands last August, by the consul at Guayaquil, to inquire into the case of the British subjects kept in servitude there
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir EDWARD GREY, Northumberland, Berwick)His Majesty's Consul at Guayaquil has reported the result of his agent's mission 635 to the Galapagos Islands in connection with the British subjects detained on the group against their will. The agent has, after due investigation, paid the debts of twelve of the 1 bourers, whom he has brought back with him to Guayaquil. They are subsequently to be repatriated, should they wish it, to their homes in the West Indies. The two remaining labourers, however, declined to leave the Islands, even if they were enabled to do so by their debts being paid; and they have accordingly been left on the group.