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tended against the utter neglect of the Hindus at Zanzibar 

 (who had promised to Lieut.-Colonel Hamerton, in return 

 for his many good offices, their interest and assistance), and 

 against the carelessness and dishonesty, the mutinous spirit and 

 the active opposition of the guide and escort. 



f( I admit that I was careful that these men should suffer for 

 their misconduct. On the other hand, I was equally deter- 

 mined that those who did their duty should be adequately 

 rewarded, — a fact which nowhere appears in Captain Bigby's 

 letter. The Portuguese servants, the negro-gun carriers, the 

 several African gangs of porters, with their leaders, and all 

 other claimants, were fully satisfied. The bills drawn in the 

 interior, from the Arab merchants, were duly paid at Zanzibar, 

 and on departure I left orders that if anything had been ne- 

 glected it should be forwarded to me in Europe. I regret that 

 Captain Kigby, without thoroughly ascertaining the merits of 

 the case (which he evidently has not done), should not have 

 permitted me to record any remarks which I might wish to 

 offer, before making it a matter of appeal to the Bombay 

 Government. 



:t Finally, I venture to hope that Captain Bigby has for- 

 warded the complaints of those who have appealed to him with- 

 out endorsing their validity ; and I trust that these observations 

 upon the statements contained in his letter may prove that 

 these statements were based upon no foundation of fact. 

 " I am, Sir, 



" Your obedient Servant, 



« R. F. Burton, 



m " Bombay Army." 



4. 



" India Office, E. C, 14th January, 1860. 

 " Sir, — I am directed by the Secretary of State for India 

 in council, to inform you that, having taken into consideration 

 the explanations afforded by you in your letter of the 11th 

 November, together with the information on the same subject 

 furnished by Captain Speke, he is of opinion that it was 

 your duty, knowing, as you did, that demands for wages, on 

 the part of certain Belochs and others who accompanied you 

 into Equatorial Africa, existed against you, not to have left 

 Zanzibar without bringing these claims before the consul there, 

 with a view to their being adjudicated on their own merits, the 

 more especially as the men had been originally engaged through 



