from race, in this case 'African' and 'of African descent'. Mulgrave was to scandalize white society once again by taking three of the child survivors to live with himself and his wife at King's House, the governor's residence, in Spanish Town: Ngeve and her sister and a boy, likely to have been a young Mbundu from the Ndongo, that is Luanda and its hinterland. The children were baptized together in Spanish Town on 10 February 1834, Ngeve and her sister were renamed Catherine and Susan Mulgrave ${ }^{7}$ and the boy become John Mulgrave. According to Mathurin-Mair (1978), the children were 'treated [...] like members of the family, ate with them at the same table' and 'the governor educated them himself', which is perhaps an overstatement, given the demands on his time and the fact that he could afford to employ a tutor. One big change for Ngeve at the time would have been the transition from Portuguese, Umbundu and Kimbundu to expressing herself exclusively in English; among the advantages of the mulattoes, as an intermediary population in Africa, was that of 'linguistic mobility' (Mathurin-Mair, 1978, p. 22).  
Recalled in 1834, the year after the shipwreck, the Earl and the Marchioness left for London, taking John with them ${ }^{8}$ and placing the sisters at the Female Refuge School, an orphanage run by the Moravian Church and housing thirty girls in Fairfield in the Manchester parish of central Jamaica. The Marchioness was a patron of the school and Catherine's education would continue there. In her later teenage years she became a monitor and junior teacher at the school and at a teacher-training institute started up by the Moravians in Fairfield in 1840. She was then sent for formal training to the Mico Normal Teaching Institution in Kingston, where she stayed for about one year. ${ }^{9}$ Subsequently, Catherine, or Kitty as the Moravian missionaries called her, was placed in charge of a Moravian day school at the Nazareth church in Manchester, then appointed as mistress at a larger Moravian day school at the New Bethlehem chapel, also  
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