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I. Social Facts The Republic of Seychelles is an archipelago of 115 islands in the West Indian Ocean, about 1,600 kilometers east of Mombasa, Kenya. Its population is a well-integrated mix of European, African, and Asian peoples. They are the descendants of the early French settlers and African slaves brought to Seychelles in the 18th century, of Indian indentured laborers who were brought in to work on the plantations after the abolition of slavery in 1835, of Chinese who arrived as traders in the latter half of the 19th century, and of the British to whom the islands were ceded in 1815. The r…