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GRATEFUL TO STANLEY. 
If the Sultan of Zanzibar were relieved from paying the 
heavy subsidy to the ruler of Muscat, he would, for the 
relief granted, readily concede all that one or two trans- 
ferred English settlements would require. The English 
name, now respected in all the interior, would bo a sort of 
safeguard to petty traders, while gradually supplanting the 
unscrupulous Banians, who abuse it. And lawful trade 
would, by the aid of' English and American merchants, be 
exalted to a position it has never held since Banians and 
Moslems emigrated to Africa. It is true that Lord Can- 
ning did ordain that the annual subsidy should be paid by 
Zanzibar to Muscat. But a statesman of his eminence never 
could have contemplated it as an indefinite aid to eager 
slave traders, while non-payment might be used to root out 
the wretched traffic. If, in addition to the relief suggested, 
the Sultan of Zanzibar were guaranteed protection from his 
relations and others in Muscat, he would feel it to be his 
interest to observe a treaty to suppress slaving all along 
the coast. 
I am thankful in now reporting mj-self well supplied with 
stores ample enough to take a feasible finish-up of the geo- 
graphical portion of my mission. This is due partly to 
the goods I seized two days ago from the slaves, who had 
been feasting on them for the last sixteen months, but 
chiefly to a large assortment of the best barter articles pre- 
sented by Henry M. Stanley, who, as I have already in- 
formed your Lordship, was kindly sent by James Gordon 
Bennett, Jr., of New York, and who bravely persisted, in 
’the teeth of the most serious obstacles, till he found mo at 
Ujiji, shortly, or one month, after my return from Man- 
yema, ill and destitute. It will readily be believed that I 
feel deeply grateful for this disinterested and unlooked for 
kindness. The supplies I seized two days ago, after a 
return march of three hundred miles, laid on me by tho 
•laves in charge refusing to accompany Mr. Stanley to 
Ujiji, were part of those sent off in the end of October, 
1870, at the instance of Her Majesty’s Government, and 
are virtually the only stores worthy of the name that came 
