Report from the Select Committee on Slave Trade (East Coast of Africa); together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index

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Title:: Report from the Select Committee on Slave Trade (East Coast of Africa); together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index

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Year of publication:: 1871

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170 APPENDIX TO EEPOET FEOM SELECT COMMITTEE Appendix, No. 8, reply, you will be pleased to afford me all the information in your power on the different ■ — points therein submitted. Several of those points have reference to occurrences and statements which have already formed part of your official correspondence on this subject, and on which I am anxious to obtain further elucidation. Others are proposed with the view of eliciting your opinion on the best means for securing the independence and prosperity of his late Highness’s dominions, subsequent to the award of the Right honourable the Governor General in the matter of the dispute now pending between the two brothers. Any suggestions from you on such points will be most acceptable. 5. Having been further directed by the Honourable the Governor of Bombay in Council to make careful inquiries as to the extent of the slave trade on the east coast of Africa, and on the best means for its prevention or suppression, I have drawn up a separate list of queries on that subject (marked B),* to which I solicit the favour of your reply. Your extensive local knowledge, combined with your strenuous exertions to arrest the nefirious traffic in the territories dependent on Zanzibar will enable you to afford me valuable assist ance in my researches, and 1 shall be most thankful for your co-operation in suggesting any measures hkely to effectuate the earnest wishes of Her Majesty’s Government for the abolition of slavery on the east coast of Africa. More especially do I request the aid of your counsel as to the feasibility and desirableness of a revision of the existing treaty with the late Imam, and on the probable results of any attempt on our part to obtain the abrogation of the immunity v\hich still permits the free transport of slaves between La moo and kilwa on the mainland, and several of the adjacent islands. I have, &c. (signed) JV. 31. Coghîan, Brigadier, In charge Muscat-Zanzibar Commission. [Translation of the Arabic Bond whereby Syud Thoweynee engaçred to abide by the arbi tration of the Right Honourable the Governor General of India, in the dispute regarding the sovereignty of Zanzibar and its dependencies, now pending between his His High ness and his brother Syud Majeed.j I, (he Syud Thoweynee bin Saeed bin Sultan, declare that, whereas the high Government of India have required of me that I should not proceed against Zanzibar, I, in accordance with their request, have abstained from so doing ; and all the claims I have against my brother Majeedj I have submitted (or the information of Government by the kind hands of Colonel Russell. And now, whatever the esteemed award of his Excellency the Governor General may be in his arbitration between me and my brother Majeed ; whatever he may decree I shall abide by it. I am quite willing to abide by his decision, whatever that may be; and further, I hereby bind myself that I will do nothing against, and will in no way molest, now or hereafter, my brother Majeed, until I have received the award of his Excellency the Governor General Sahib, and the issue of his arbitration between us. (Signed by my own hand) Thoiceynee. Dated 22nd Suffer, 1276. Signed by his Highness Syud Thoweynee, in my presence, this 21st day of September 1859. (signed) C. J. Cruttenden, Commander, Commanding Her Majesty’s Sloop “ Ferooz,” Indian Navy. (Secret Department.—No. 53 uf 1860.) From Lieutenant Colonel C. P. Righy, Her Majesty’s Consul and British Agent, Zanzibar, to Brigadier W. M. Coghlan, in charge Muscat-Zanzibar Commission at Zanzibar, dated Zanzibar, 5 October 1860. Sir. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 12 of 1860, Secret Department, dated the 1st instant, relative to the rival claims of their Highnesses Syud Thoweynee of Muscat and Syud Majeed of Zanzibar. 2. As desired in the second paragraph of your letter, 1 herewith forward you a bond in the Arabic language ( annexed, marked A), which was written and sealed in my presence by his Highness Syud Majeed, and in which he engages to abide by the decision of his Lordship the Viceroy and Governor General of India in all matters of dispute between himself and his brother Syud Thoweynee. 3. I also * These, together with Colonel Rigby’s replies, have already been submitted to Government in my Report on the Slave Trade, No. 14, dated Ist November 1860.

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