Scio was the seat of their most favored college, and when the people of that ill-fated island fled from the murderous sword of the Turks, some of the families sought refuge in Malta.

There were bright youths among them, and six of these, and two from other Greek islands, so interested Messrs.

Fisk and Temple, that they obtained permission to send them home, to be educated chiefly at the expense of the Board.

This was before the results of the Foreign Mission School at Cornwall had become manifest.

Three others arrived in 1826, and one in 1828; and nearly all received a liberal education, either at Amherst or Yale.