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ON  SLAVE  TR4.de  (EAST  COAST  OF  AFRICA).

4.  It  is  also  proposed  to  address  Lieutenant  Colonel  Rigby  by  the  same  opportunity,
communicating  to  him  the  approval  of  his  Excellency  in  Council  of  the  judicious  advice
offered  by  him  to  his  Highness  Syud  Majeed,  especially  in  respect  to  the  liberation  of  the
chiefs  of  the  El-Harth  tribe,  which  would,  in  the  opinion  of  this  Government,  not  only
be  productive  of  the  very  great  advantage  of  enabling  him  to  dispose,  without  mrther
embarrassment,  of  the  Muscat  claim  upon  him  for  arrears,  but  would  also,  it  is  hoped,
tend  to  perpetuate  the  tranquillity  of  the  Zanzibar  territory  by  burying  former  disputes
in  oblivion.

5.  Permission  for  the  return  of  his  Highness  Syud  Barghash  to  Zanzibar  having  been
conceded  by  the  Sultan,  it  appears  to  Government  that  it  would  be  well  that  this  young
chief  should  accompany  Captain  Lewis  Pelly,  who  has  been  appointed  fo  act  for  Lieutenant ­
  Colonel  Rigby  ;  arrangements  will  accordingly  be  made  to  enable  Syud  Barghash
to  accompany  Captain  Pelly  to  Zanzibar.

6.  I  am  desired  to  add  an  expression  of  the  regret  with  which  this  Government  has
received  the  unfavourable  intelligence  conveyed  by  Colonel  Rigby  in  regard  to  his
Highness  Syud  Majeed’s  state  of  health.
7.  A  khureeta  from  his  Highness  to  the  address  of  the  Right  Honourable  the  Governor
General  accompanies.
I'  have,  &c.
(signed)  A.  Kinloch  Forbes,
Acting  Secretary  to  Government.

Appendix,  No.  8.

(No.  197  of  1861.)
From  A.  Kinloch  Forbes,  Esq.,  Acting  Secretary  to  Government,  Bombay,  to  Lieutenant
Colonel  C.  F.  Rigby,  Her  Majesty’s  Consul  and  British  Agent  at  Zanzibar.
Secret  Department,  Bombay  Castle,
g'j.  24  July  1861.
1  AM  directed  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  your  letter,  with  enclosure,  dated  the  29th
June  last.  No.  40,  reporting  the  acceptance  by  his  Highness  Syud  Majeed  of  the  terms  ot
the  Rio-ht  Honourable  the  Governor  General’s  arbitration  relative  to  the  matters  in  dispute ­
  ivith  his  Highness’s  brother  Syud  Thoweynee  bin  Saeed  of  Muscat.
2  In  reply  I  am  desired  to  observe  that  the  Honourable  the  Governor  in  Council  considers ­
  your  communications  to  his  Highness  Syud  Majeed  to  be  very  judicious,  and  he
especially  approves  of  the  advice  offered  to  the  Sultan  in  respect  to  the  liberation  of  the
chiefs  of  the  El-Harth  tribe,  which  would  not  only  be  productive  of  the  very  great  advantao-e
  of  enabling  him  to  dispose,  without  further  embarrassment,  of  the  Muscat  claim
upon  him  for  arrears,  but  would  also,  it  is  hoped,  tend  to  perpetuate  the  tranquillity  of  the
Zanzibar  territory  by  burying  former  disputes  in  oblivion.
3,  I  am  at  the  same  time  desired  to  state  that  Government  are  gratified  to  find  that  the
arbitration  of  his  Excellency  the  Viceroy  and  Governor  General  has  been  received  in  so
satisfactory  a  spirit  by  the  Arab  community  of  Zanzibar  as  well  as  by  his  Highness  byud
Majeed.
4.  His  Excellency  in  Council  trusts  that  his  Highness’s  proposal  to  pay  the  annual
subsidy  to  Muscat  in  two  instalments  will  be  favourably  received  by  the  Government  of
India.  The  arrangement  could  not.  Government  think,  be  objected  to  by  the  Sultan  of
Muscat,  as  it  is  believed  to  have  formed  part  of  the  original  scheme.
5  Permission  for  the  return  of  his  Highness  Syud  Barghash  to  Zanzibar  having  been
Pelly  to  Zanzibar.
receivÄ  mfevourable  rIgW  'Ä
I  have,  &c.
(signed)  A.  Kinloch  Forbes,
Acting  Secretary  to  Government.

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