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trator ; and it should be impressed upon both parties, at the time of delivering to them Appendix, No. 8. 
the Governor General’s letters, that, as they have solemnly aceepted the arbitration, the 
Government of India looks to their abiding faithfully by his Excellency’s award. 
5. The annual payment of 40,000 crowns is not to be understood as a recognition of 
any dependence of Zanzibar upon Muscat, neither is it to be considered as merely per 
sonal between Syud Thoweynee and Syud Majeed, but as a permanent arrangement, com- 
jiensating the ruler of Muscat for the abandonment of all claims upon Zanzibar, 
and adjusting the inequality between the two inheritances, which are to be henceforward 
separate. 
6. The Governor General in Council offers no opinion about the rule of succession in 
Zanzibar ; to do so would, he considers, be travelling beyond the bounds of the question 
submitted for arbitration. 
7. His Excellency in Council agrees with the Bombay Government as to the guardian 
ship of the younger brothers, and requests that the necessary instructions may be issued 
to Her Majesty’s Consul at Zanzibar. 
8. Syud Barghash must, of course, be free to return to Zanzibar if he pleases, and the 
Consul should be directed to recommend him to the clemency of Syud Majeed. But there 
is strong objection to putting him under the Consul’s surveillance. The Consul may very 
properly give him good advice on occasion arising, and warn him that he will receive no 
countenance or protection from the Consulate in the event of his behaving disloyally or 
turbulently ; but the English Consul could not, with any propriety, or without risk of 
grave embarrassment, undertake to watch the doings of a suspected member of the ruler’s 
family. 
9. The opinion of Brigadier Coghlan and of the Bombay Government, negativing the 
claim of Syud Toorkee to the independent sovereignty of Sohar, appears to be perfectly 
just. The communication which it is proposed to make to that chief will be very 
proper. 
10. The proposal to appoint a duly qualified agent to Muscat is entirely approved, and 
I am directed to request that the Government of Bombay will lose no time in nominating 
a duly qualified person, if their suggestions for a new arrangement of the agencies in 
Arabia, Persia, and Zanzibar, are likely to be delayed. 
11. The Supreme Government heartily concurs in the commendation given by the 
Governor in Council to Brigadier Coghlan. It is rare to see an intricate and difficult 
subject so completely and clearly dealt with as the one now before his Excellency in 
Brigadier Coghlan’s report, and his Lordship in Council trusts that Her Majesty’s 
Government will not omit to mark their appreciation of this excellent officer’s valuable 
services, past and present. 
12. The best thanks of the Governor General in Council should also be conveyed to 
the Rev. Mr. Badger for the important aid which he has given to Brigadier Coghlan in 
this matter. His Excellency believes that there is no officer of the Indian service who 
possesses so familiar and cultivated a knowledge of Arabic as Mr. Badger, and the 
services which this knowledge and his general ability enabled him to render to the army 
in Persia under Sir James Outram are well known to and appreciated by the Government 
of India. 
13. The Government of India would be glad to receive any suggestions from the 
Government of Bombay for encouraging the study of Arabic, more especially among the 
military servants of Government on that side of India. It is possible that the revival of 
the pecuniary rewards to be bestowed on those who attain a certificate of high proficiency 
in the language, with the chances of staff employ, would offer sufficient inducements for 
the purpose. 
14. Letters in English to the address of his Highness Syud Thoweynee and his Highness 
Syud Majeed, signed by the Governor General, and conveying his Excellency’s decision, 
are herewith forwarded to you for transmission. Copies are also enclosed. Prom 
these copies the Governor General in Council requests that Arabic translations may be 
made, expressing fully and accurately the terms of the letters, each of which is to be 
delivered with its Arabic translation. 
1Ö. If Mr. Badger is still at Bombay, it will be satisfactory that the translations should 
be made by him. 
16. The Governor General in Council leaves it to the Governor of Bombay in Council 
to determine how the letters shall be sent, observing only that there is no necessity to 
send again an agent or a ship specially to Zanzibar. 
I have, &c. 
(signed) G. C. Barnes, 
Officiating Secretary to the Government of India. 
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