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THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFEICA. 



9. 



No. 2845, of 1857. 



" Political Department. 



From H. L. Anderson, Esq., Secretary to Government of 

 Bombay, to Capt. R. F. Burton, Commanding E\ A, Expe- 

 dition, Zanzibar. 



" Dated 13th June, 1857. 

 " Sir, — I am directed by the Right Honourable the Governor 

 in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 

 26th April last, soliciting compensation on behalf of yourself 

 and the other members of the late Somalee Expedition, for 

 losses sustained by you and them. 



" 2. In reply, I am desired to inform you, that under the 

 Having regard to the conduct of the Expedition, opinion copied in the margin, 



llis Lordship cannot think that the officers who pvnrpaapfl h-vr tVio lifo C^r\ 

 composed it have any just claims on the Govern- CXpre^SeCl Dy IRQ late mo- 

 ment for their personal losses. vernor-General of India, the 

 Right Honourable the Governor in Council cannot accede to 

 the application now preferred. 



" I have, &c, 

 " (Signed) H. L. Anderson, 



" Secretary to Government." 



END OF FIRST CORRESPONDENCE. 



SECOND CORRESPONDENCE. 

 1. 



" India Office, E. C, 8th November, 1859. 



<< — I am directed by the Secretary of State for India 

 in Council to forward for your information, copy of a letter ad- 

 dressed by Captain Rigby, her Majesty's Consul and agent at 

 Zanzibar, to the Government of Bombay, respecting the non-pay- 

 ment of certain persons hired by you to accompany the Expedition 

 under your command into Equatorial Africa, and to request 

 that you will furnish me with any observations which you may 

 have to make upon the statements contained in that letter. 



6i Sir Charles Wood especially desires to be informed why 

 you took no steps to bring the services of the men who accom- 



