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was entirely dependent on Luddah Damha, the Custom- 

 master here, for money and supplies. He advanced considerable 

 sums of money without any security, forwarded all requisite 

 supplies, and, Captain Speke says, afforded the Expedition 

 every assistance, in the most handsome manner. Should 

 Government, therefore, be pleased to present him with a shaw], 

 or some small mark of satisfaction, I am confident he is fully 

 deserving of it, and it would gratify a very worthy man to find 

 that his assistance to the Expedition is acknowledged. 



" I have, &c, 

 " (Signed) C. P. Eigby, Captain, 

 " H. M.'s Consul and British Agent, Zanzibar." 



3. 



" East India United Service Club, St. James's Square, 

 11th November, 1859. 



" Sir, — I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of 

 your official letter, dated the 8th of November, 1859, forward- 

 ing for my information copy of a letter, addressed by Captain 

 Rigby, Her Majesty's consul and agent at Zanzibar, to the 

 Government of Bombay, respecting the non-payment of certain 

 persons, hired by me to accompany the Expedition under my 

 command into Equatorial Africa, and apprising me that Sir C. 

 Wood especially desires to be informed, why I took no steps to 

 bring the services of the men who accompanied me, and my 

 obligations to them, to the notice of the Bombay Government. 



" In reply to Sir Charles Wood I have the honour to state 

 that, as the men alluded to rendered me no services, and as I 

 felt in no way obliged to them, I would not report favourably 

 of them. The Kafilah Bashi, the Jemadar, and the Baloch 

 were servants of H.H. Say y id Majid, in his pay and 

 under his command ; they were not hired by me, but by the 

 late Lieut.-Col. Hamerton, H.M.'s Consul and H.E.I.C.'s 

 agent at Zanzibar, and they marched under the Arab flag. On 

 return to Zanzibar, I reported them as undeserving of reward 

 to Lieut.-Col. Hamerton's successor, Capt. Rigby, and after 

 return to England, when my accounts were sent in to the 

 Royal Geographical Society, I appended a memorandum, that 

 as those persons had deserved no reward, no reward had been 

 applied for. 



" Before proceeding to reply to Capt. Rigby's letter, para- 

 graph by paragraph, I would briefly premise with the following 

 remarks. 



