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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  assistance ­
  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  arbitration ­
  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  Highness ­
  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.