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" Being ordered to report myself to Lieut.-Col. Hamerton, 

 and having been placed under his direction, I admitted his 

 friendly interference, and allowed him to apply to H.H. the 

 Sultan for a guide and an escort. Lieut.-Col. Hamerton 

 offered to defray, from public funds, which he understood to 

 be at his disposal, certain expenses of the Expedition, and he 

 promised, as reward to the guide and escort, sums of money, to 

 which, had I been unfettered, I should have objected as exor- 

 bitant. But in all cases, the promises made by the late consul 

 were purely conditional, depending entirely upon the satis- 

 factory conduct of those employed. These facts are wholly 

 omitted in Capt. Rigby 's reports. 



" 2. Capt. Rigby appears to mean that the Kafila Bashi, the 

 Baloch sepoys, and the porters received nothing whatever on 

 my return to Zanzibar, in March last, from the interior of 

 Africa, because the funds supplied to me by the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society for the Expenditure of the Expedition, had 

 been exhausted. Besides the sum of (1000/.) one thousand 

 pounds, granted by the Foreign Office. I had expended from 

 private resources nearly (1400/.) fourteen hundred pounds, and 

 I was ready to expend more had the expenditure been called for. 

 But, though prepared on these occasions to reward liberally for 

 good service, I cannot see the necessity, or rather I see the 

 unadvisability of offering a premium to notorious misconduct. 

 This was fully explained by me to Capt. Rigby on my return 

 to Zanzibar. 



" 3. Capt. Rigby ( understands 9 that the party of Baloch 

 sepoys, consisting of a J emadar and twelve armed men, were 

 promised a monthly salary of 5 dollars each. This was not the 

 case. Lieut.-Col. Hamerton advanced to the Jemadar 25, and 

 to each sepoy 20 dollars for an outfit ; he agreed that I should 

 provide them with daily rations, and he promised them an 

 ample reward from the public funds in case of good behaviour. 

 These men deserved nothing ; I ignore their 6 fidelity ' and 

 ' perseverance,' and I assert that if I passed safely through an 

 unexplored country, it was in no wise by their efforts. On 

 hearing of Lieut.-Col. Hamerton's death, they mutinied in 

 a body. At the Tanganyika Lake they refused to escort me 

 during the period of navigation, a month of danger and diffi- 

 culty. When Capt. Speke proposed to explore the Nyanza 

 Lake, they would not march without a present of a hundred 

 dollars' worth of cloth. On every possible occasion they cla- 

 moured for 6 Bakshish,' which, under pain of endangering 

 the success of the Expedition, could not always be withheld. 

 They were often warned by me that they were forfeiting all 



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