The Mission will be conveyed to Aden in the Honourable Company’s steam frigate Auckland, now under orders to leave Bombay on the 27th instant; and it has been arranged that one of the Honourable Company’s vessels of war, at present in the Red Sea, shall be in readiness to convey the Mission thence to Tajúra, at which latter place it should immediately disembark, and commence its journey to Ankóber.
(Signed) J.P. Willoughby, Secretary to Government.
To Captain W.C. Harris, Corps of Engineers.
The Embassy was thus Composed:
Captain W.C. Harris, Bombay Engineers.
Captain Douglas Graham, Bombay Army. Principal Assistant.
Assistant-Surgeon Rupert Kirk, Bombay Medical Service.
Dr J.R. Roth, Natural Historian.
Lieutenant Sydney Horton, H.M. 49th Foot,—as a Volunteer.
Lieutenant W.C. Barker, Indian Navy.