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that they did not accompany the Expedition. He now claims 

 eleven months' pay for each of these men, as they have not been 

 paid anything beyond the advance before starting. 



" 5. The head clerk also states that after the Expedition left 

 Zanzibar, he sent two men to Captain Burton with supplies, 

 one of whom was absent with the Expedition seventeen months, 

 and received nothing whatever ; the other, he states, was absent 

 fifteen months, and received six months' pay, the pay for the 

 remaining nine months being still due to him. Thus his claim 

 amounts to the following sums: — 



Ten men for eleven months, at five dollars per man, per month, 550 Dollars. 

 One man for seventeen „ „ „ „ 85 „ 



One „ nine „ „ „ „ 45 „ 



Total dollars - - 680 



Si 6. These men were slaves, belonging to f deewans,' or petty 

 chiefs, on the opposite mainland. They travel far into the interior 

 to collect and carry down ivory to the coast, and are absent fre- 

 quently for the space of two or three years. When hired out, 

 the pay they receive is equally divided between the slave and 

 the master. Captain Speke informs me, that when these men 

 were hired, it was agreed that one-half of their hire should be 

 paid to the men, and the other half to Kamjee on account of 

 their owners. When Eamjee asked Captain Burton for their 

 pay, on his return here, he declined to give him anything, 

 saying that they had received thirty dollars each on starting, 

 and that he could have bought them for a less sum. 



" 7. The Kafila Bashi, or chief Arab, who accompanied the 

 Expedition, by name Said bin Salem, was twenty-two months 

 with Captain Burton. He states, that on the first journey to 

 Pangany and Usumbara, he received fifty (50) dollars from 

 Captain Burton ; and that before starting on the last expe- 

 dition, to discover the Great Lake, the late Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Hamerton presented him with five hundred dollars on behalf of 

 Government for the maintenance of his family during his 

 absence. He states that he did not stipulate for any monthly 

 pay, as Colonel Hamerton told him, that if he escorted the 

 gentlemen to the Great Lake in the interior, and brought them 

 in safety back to Zanzibar, he wou'd be handsomely rewarded ; 

 and both Captain Speke and Mr. Apothecary Frost inform me 

 that Colonel Hamerton frequently promised Said bin Salem 

 that he should receive a thousand dollars and a gold watch if 

 the Expedition were successful. 



" 8. As it appeared to me that Colonel Hamerton had received 

 no authority from Government to defray any part of the 



