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hopes of a future reward, and, indeed, they ended by thinking 

 so themselves. They returned to Zanzibar with a number of 

 slaves, purchased by them with money procured from the Ex- 

 pedition. I would not present either guide or escort to the 

 consul ; but I did not think it my duty to oppose a large 

 reward, said to be 2,300 dollars, given to them by H.H. the 

 Sultan, and I reported his liberality and other acts of kindness 

 to the Bombay Government on my arrival at Aden. This fact 

 will, I trust, exonerate me from any charge of wishing to 

 suppress my obligations. 



" 4. The Banyan Ramji, head clerk of the Custom House, did 

 not, as is stated by Capt. Rigby, procure me (10) ten men 

 who accompanied the Expedition as porters ; nor were these 

 men, as is asserted, (in par. 6), * Slaves belonging to dee wans 

 or petty chiefs on the opposite mainland.' It is a notorious fact 

 that these men were private slaves, belonging to the Banyan 

 Ramjee, who hired them to me direct, and received from me as 

 their pay, for six months, thirty dollars each ; a sum for which, 

 as I told him, he might have bought them in the bazaar. At 

 the end of six months I was obliged to dismiss these slaves, 

 who, as is usually the case with the slaves of Indian subjects 

 at Zanzibar, were mutinous in the extreme. At the same time 

 I supplied them with cloth, to enable them to rejoin their 

 patron. On my return from the Tanganyika Lake, they 

 requested leave to accompany me back to Zanzibar, which 

 I permitted, with the express warning that they were not to 

 consider themselves re-engaged. The Banyan, their proprietor, 

 had, in fact, sent them on a trading trip into the interior under 

 my escort, and I found them the most troublesome of the party. 

 When Ramji applied for additional pay, after my return to 

 Zanzibar, I told him that I had engaged them for six months ; 

 that I had dismissed them at the end of six months, as was left 

 optional to me ; and that he had already received an unusual 

 sum for their services. This conversation appears in a distorted 

 form and improperly represented in the concluding sentence of 

 Capt. Rigby's 6th paragraph. 



" 5 and 6. With respect to the two men sent on with sup- 

 plies after the Expedition had left Zanzibar, they were not 

 paid, on account of the prodigious disappearance of the goods 

 intrusted to their charge, as I am prepared to prove from the 

 original journals in my possession. They were dismissed with 

 their comrades, and never afterwards, to the best of my remem- 

 brance, did a day's work. 



"7 and 8. The Kafllah Bashi received from me for the first jour- 

 ney to Usumbara (50) fifty dollars. Before my departure in the 



