END OF FIRST CORRESPONDENCE.
SECOND CORRESPONDENCE.
1.
“India Office, E. C., 8th November, 1859.
“Sir,—I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to forward for your 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 you to accompany the Expedition under your command into Equatorial Africa, and to request that you will furnish me with any observations which you may have to make upon the statements contained in that letter.
“Sir Charles Wood especially desires to be informed why you took no steps to bring the services of the men who accompanied you, and your obligations to them, to the notice of the Bombay Government.
“I am, Sir,
“Your obedient servant,
“(Signed)T. Cosmo Melville.
“Captain R. Burton.”
2.
“No. 70 of 1859.
“Political Department.