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ON SLAVE TR4.de (EAST COAST OF AFRICA). 
4. It is also proposed to address Lieutenant Colonel Rigby by the same opportunity, 
communicating to him the approval of his Excellency in Council of the judicious advice 
offered by him to his Highness Syud Majeed, especially in respect to the liberation of the 
chiefs of the El-Harth tribe, which would, in the opinion of this Government, not only 
be productive of the very great advantage of enabling him to dispose, without mrther 
embarrassment, of the Muscat claim upon him for arrears, but would also, it is hoped, 
tend to perpetuate the tranquillity of the Zanzibar territory by burying former disputes 
in oblivion. 
5. Permission for the return of his Highness Syud Barghash to Zanzibar having been 
conceded by the Sultan, it appears to Government that it would be well that this young 
chief should accompany Captain Lewis Pelly, who has been appointed fo act for Lieu 
tenant Colonel Rigby ; arrangements will accordingly be made to enable Syud Barghash 
to accompany Captain Pelly to Zanzibar. 
6. I am desired to add an expression of the regret with which this Government has 
received the unfavourable intelligence conveyed by Colonel Rigby in regard to his 
Highness Syud Majeed’s state of health. 
7. A khureeta from his Highness to the address of the Right Honourable the Governor 
General accompanies. 
I' have, &c. 
(signed) A. Kinloch Forbes, 
Acting Secretary to Government. 
Appendix, No. 8. 
(No. 197 of 1861.) 
From A. Kinloch Forbes, Esq., Acting Secretary to Government, Bombay, to Lieutenant 
Colonel C. F. Rigby, Her Majesty’s Consul and British Agent at Zanzibar. 
Secret Department, Bombay Castle, 
g'j. 24 July 1861. 
1 AM directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, with enclosure, dated the 29th 
June last. No. 40, reporting the acceptance by his Highness Syud Majeed of the terms ot 
the Rio-ht Honourable the Governor General’s arbitration relative to the matters in dis 
pute ivith his Highness’s brother Syud Thoweynee bin Saeed of Muscat. 
2 In reply I am desired to observe that the Honourable the Governor in Council con 
siders your communications to his Highness Syud Majeed to be very judicious, and he 
especially approves of the advice offered to the Sultan in respect to the liberation of the 
chiefs of the El-Harth tribe, which would not only be productive of the very great ad- 
vantao-e of enabling him to dispose, without further embarrassment, of the Muscat claim 
upon him for arrears, but would also, it is hoped, tend to perpetuate the tranquillity of the 
Zanzibar territory by burying former disputes in oblivion. 
3, I am at the same time desired to state that Government are gratified to find that the 
arbitration of his Excellency the Viceroy and Governor General has been received in so 
satisfactory a spirit by the Arab community of Zanzibar as well as by his Highness byud 
Majeed. 
4. His Excellency in Council trusts that his Highness’s proposal to pay the annual 
subsidy to Muscat in two instalments will be favourably received by the Government of 
India. The arrangement could not. Government think, be objected to by the Sultan of 
Muscat, as it is believed to have formed part of the original scheme. 
5 Permission for the return of his Highness Syud Barghash to Zanzibar having been 
Pelly to Zanzibar. 
receivÄ mfevourable rIgW 'Ä 
I have, &c. 
(signed) A. Kinloch Forbes, 
Acting Secretary to Government. 
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