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at Addiscombe? — he has since thought proper to change 

 his mind. The Jemadar and the Baloch attended me 

 to the doorway of the prince's darbar : I would not 

 introduce them to their master or to the consul, as 

 such introduction would have argued myself satisfied 

 with their conduct, nor would I recommend them for 

 promotion or reward. Lad ha Damha put in a faint 

 claim for salary due to the sons of Ramji ; but when 

 informed of the facts of the case he at once withdrew 

 it, and I heard no more of it at Zanzibar. As regards 

 the propriety of these severe but equitable measures, 

 my companion was, I believe, at that time of the same 

 opinion as myself: perhaps Captain S poke's prospect 

 of a return to East Africa, and of undertaking a similar 

 exploration, have caused him since that epoch to think, 

 and to think that he then thought, otherwise. 



The report of the success of the PunjauVs mission 

 left me at liberty to depart. With a grateful heart 

 I bade adieu to a prince whose kindness and personal 

 courtesy will long dwell in my memory, and who at 

 the parting interview had expressed a hope to see me 

 again, and had offered me a passage homeward in one 

 of his ships-of-war. At the time, however, a clipper- 

 built barque, the Dragon of Salem, Captain M'Farlane 

 commanding, was discharging cargo in the harbour, 

 preparatory to sailing with the S.W. monsoon for 

 Aden. The captain consented to take us on board : 

 Captain Rigby, however, finding his boat too crowded, 

 was compelled to omit accompanying us — a little mark 

 of civility not unusual in the East. His place, how- 

 ever, was well filled up by Seedy Mubarak Bombay, 

 whose honest face appeared at that moment, by con- 

 trast, peculiarly attractive. 



On the 22nd March, 1859, the clove-shrubs and the 

 cocoa-trees of Zanzibar again faded from my eyes. After 



