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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.