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panied you, and your obligations to them, to the notice of the 

 Bombay Government. 



" I am, Sir, 



(i Your obedient servant, 

 " (Signed) T. Cosmo Melville. 



" Captain R. Burton." 



2. 



" No. 70 of 1859. 

 " Political Department. 



From Captain C. P. RiGBY, her Majesty's Consul and British 

 agent, Zanzibar, to H. L. Anderson, Esquire, Secretary to 

 Government, Bombay. 



" Zanzibar, July 15th, 1859. 



ce Sir, — I have the honour to report, for the information of 

 the Right Honourable the Governor in Council, the following 

 circumstances connected with the late East African Expedition 

 under the command of Captain Burton. 



" 2. Upon the return of Captain Burton to Zanzibar in 

 March last, from the interior of Africa, he stated that, from 

 the funds supplied him by the Royal Geographical Society for 

 the expenses of the Expedition, he had only a sufficient sum left 

 to defray the passage of himself and Captain Speke to England, 

 and in consequence the persons who accompanied the Expe- 

 dition from here, viz. : the Kafila Bashi, the Belooch Sepoys, 

 and the porters, received nothing whatever from him on their 

 return. 



(< 3. On quitting Zanzibar for the interior of Africa, the 

 expedition was accompanied by a party of Belooch soldiers, 

 consisting of a Jemadar and twelve armed men. I understand 

 they were promised a monthly salary of five dollars each ; they 

 remained with the Expedition for twenty months, and as 

 they received nothing from Captain Burton beyond a few dol- 

 lars each before starting, his highness the Sultan has generously 

 distributed amongst them the sum of (2300) two thousand three 

 hundred dollars. 



t£ 4. The head clerk of the Custom House here, a Banian, 

 by name Ramjec, procured ten men, who accompanied the Ex- 

 pedition as porters ; they were promised five dollars each per 

 mensem, and received pay for six months, viz. : thirty dollars 

 each before starting for the interior. They were absent for 

 twenty months, during three of which the Banian Ramjee states 



