ON SLAVE TRADE (EAST COAST OF AFRICA). 
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fro:n us the assurance of our highest esteem, and the salutation of peace as the best con- Appendix, No. 8. 
From your truly attached friend, the servant of God, who confides in him as the Giver of 
all good. 
(signed) Thoiceynee bin Saeed bin Sultan. 
4 El-Kaada 1277 (15 May 1861). (l-S.) 
(True translation.) 
(signed) George Percy Badger. 
(No. 580 of 1861.) 
Substance of a Letter from His Highness Syud Barghash bin Saeed to His Excellency 
the Governor; dated the 26th Zilkad (Hijree), 1277 [6th June], and received and 
ordered to be Translated on the 6th June 1861. 
Persian Department, 7 June 1861. 
A. C..—I HAVE received your Excellency’s kind letter of the 12th Zilkad^ [23rd May], 
and noted the contents thereof, which have been a source of much gratification o me. 
have bound myself to your Excellency not to repeat the acts which have been committed. 
Your Excellency’s order is binding on me, and if it pleases God, no acts contrary to it 
will ever again be committed by me in any respect. May your Excellency prosper. 
(signed) Venayek Wassoodeo, 
Oriental Translator to Government. 
(No. 48 of 1861.) 
(Office No. 170.) 
o- Secret Department, 19 June 1861. 
to the questions at issue between their Highnesses Syud Thoweynee, of Muscat, and Syu 
Majeed, of Zanzibar. 
Aden Mr. Badger was accompanied by Lieutenant Pengelley, of the India Navy, w 
has beeil selected for the office of IBhithdi jignent ad; IJiiscat, in (iccordaiice Tvidi the 
instructions conveyed in paragraph 10 of the letter under acknowledgment. 
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interview with Mr. Badger. 
4. I am directed to enclose a translation of a letter ^dressed 
mensem for the pay of a writer, and for boat-hire. 
5 In consequence of the receipt of private intelligence from Zanzibar to the effiect 
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