The French missionaries were also anxious to avoid any trouble on Zanzibar. "Recognizing the realities of life in Muslim Zanzibar, the Frenchmen, from about 1862, members of the Holy Ghost Order, limited their activities to education, pastoral work among the city's small Roman Catholic Goan community, and health care, opening the sultanate's first European-directed hospital.
Wamisionari wakifaransa walikuwa makini kuepuka matatizo yoyote Zanzibar kwa kutambua uhalisia wa maisha ulivyo ndani ya nchi ya kiislamu ya Zanzibar, Wafaransa kuanzia 1862 wafuasi wa Holy Ghost Order, waliamua kujikita katika maeneo maalum kama ya elimu, shughuli za uchungaji kwa jumuia ndogo ya mjini ya magoa wakatoliki na huduma za afifu na walifungua hospitali ya mwanzo iliyopendekezwa na Sultani ya kizungu.