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received from the Kingdom (England), and it is believed that none will come for five years. Appendix, No. 8. 
No certain intelligence had been received at Bombay from Muscat for three months. 
Beloved friend, your servant Mahomed Khamees was to sail (from Bombay ?) six days 
after the (French) vessel, which has now arrived. He was busy getting the soldiers and 
guns on board, and the English Government took a great interest in the matter. They 
saluted the ship with 21 guns from the fort as she was moved into the sea, and a steamer 
was made to tow her. And it is reported that there are great disturbances in the (European) 
Kingdom, and the English are sending 20,000 sailors for the ships, besides those that have 
already gone, and material of war in large quantities. The French are doing the same ; 
they have already despatched about 50,000, and God only knows what the result will be. 
Whatever you may require, only give me a hint thereof. Peace.—From your loving 
brother, 
Majeed. 
Your esteemed letter, brother and lord, has reached, and your brother understands what 
you have stated. What has been done by you and by me was not on your account ; but 
what has occurred has been on account of another from whom you have come. Brother, 
I ask you to excuse and pardon me. In what has taken place, I trust you will escape 
any accusation from the people of Muscat, for, as regards yourself, I call God to witness, 
on my soul, that we have only good to say of you. To-morrow the “ Clive ” will pass by 
you, should she be in time ; but you had better sail before her, that intelligence may go 
that you have left Zanzibar. Whatever you may require, a bint will suffice.— Your loving 
brother, 
Majeed, 
Safar 1276. (in his own hand.) 
Your esteemed letter, brother and lord, has reached us. Be good enough to weigh from 
this place and anchor before Showeynee, that we may not always appear to lie to him 
(Rigby), and though our face may appear pinched towards you, yet you are of those who 
forgive. Salâm.—W^ritten by the hand of your loving brother, 
Majeed. 
(True Translations.) 
(signed) George Percy Badger. 
Appendix (H.) 
Translation of a Letter from Suleiman bin Hamed, Vizier of Syud Majeed, to 
Syud Thoweynee. 
After the departure of your brother, Syud bin Salem, the Consul began to oblige 
your brother, Syud Majeed bin Saeed to rise against Syud Barghash, to make him leave 
Zanzibar, on the ground that, if the said Syud Barghash remained at Zanzibar, there 
would be no end of sedition, for he misleads the people. So he sent me to Syud Barghash, 
and I went to him and spoke to him, and counselled him, on account of my love for the 
children of the late Syud Saeed. I said to him, “ Syud Barghash, this affair is mixed up 
with the English, and they have sent this steamer (the “ Assaye”) in order to expel the El- 
Harth Arabs from Zanzibar, and to expel you also.” But Syud Barghash would not believe 
my words, so I reiterated my advice, saying, “ Syud Majeed bids you to embark on board the 
ship “ Piedmontse,” and he will disemburse to you your past salary, and the same for the 
future, and give you, besides the allowance, something additional, and go you to Muscat and 
remain there for a year, and after that remove your relatives and return to Zanzibar in safety. 
He would not consent to this; so I returned to Syud Majeed with the reply, that his 
brother Syud Barghash asked to delay his departure till the monsoon opened. To this 
Syud Majeed would not consent, so he said to me, tell him to go in any vessel he pleases, 
seeing that he does not wish to leave in one of my ships; but go he must, otherwise we 
must confine him. So I went again to Syud Barghash and told him that unless he sailed 
he would be confined. He replied ; No doubt I have deserved what my brother Majeed is 
doing to me ! So he was confined. Afterwards I went to Syud Barghâsh and remonstrated 
with him, so that he consented to leave, asking a month’s delay, after which he would 
depart. I returned to Syud Majeed who gave him the month’s delay to prepare; and 
Syud Barghash wanted money from your servant Ludda, the agent of your servant Zirâin ; 
but Ludda, as would appear, refused and consulted me, whereon 1 told him I would obtain 
something for him from his brother Majeed, so I went to Syud Majeed and asked for some 
thing from him for his brother, and he gave me 10,000 dollars. After which I went to 
Syud Majeed again, and took from him the remainder of the inheritance still due to him, 
0.116. T 2 viz,.