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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎278] (320/733)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (364 folios). It was created in 1856. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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278
VISIT TO ZANZIBAR.
had to lament his learning, by finding himself doomed to have had his
head severed from his body, that he might tell no tales.
The Queen said she had been made happy by hearing from one who
had long been in friendship with her father, and she hoped always to
hear of his welfare, and wished he could pay a visit to Tananareiro : in
case he did not do so, she should be very much obliged if he would
have the kindness to send her a coral necklace of a thousand dollars,
and she would order the money to be paid whenever it was landed.
She hoped th.eir friendship would increase, and that opportunities would
offer for their becoming better acquainted.
The Ministers were also glad to hear of His Highness, and wished
much that he would come and show himself, or send some of his men-
of-war, which should have every attention paid them. They could not
offer the Queen, because by their law it was contrary for her to marry,
but there was a young princess which he might have. As for the men,
he might have as many as he pleased, and he had only to give them a
musket. This was the substance of the two letters. His Highness was
disappointed that there was not more said about love in the Queen s
letter; but the Master of the brig consoled him by saying " she had
said as much as she could say in a first letter." The people of Mada
gascar appear to be his great allies, and have been some time in corre
spondence with him respecting a force of two thousand men, which His
Highness is to have to go against the people of Mombassa, who are
now in a state of revolt. The Imaum told me that the Mombassa people
were in this state of rebellion, and asked, if he were to send to
Madagascar and get troops, whether the English would like it ? I told
him the English would not interfere between him and his subjects,
and that he could act as he pleased to subdue a rebellion in his
own dominions; but he repeated, " Will they like it ? " That I could
not tell. I asked him why he did not send one of his ships, which would
blow them out of the water. He said he had done so, but they all ran
aw r ay, and returned in his absence ; it was no use, unless he had troops
to follow them. It appears he did some time since go to Mombassa with
four or five thousand Arabs, who got fever and sickly, and most of
them died ; besides an Arab will not fight; whilst these Malambo
people from Madagascar are said to be good soldiers, and desperate
fellows. His Highness' frigate Piedmontese is going to Madagascar in
about a month.
Tananareiro, the capital of the island of Madagascar, where the
Queen resides, and where she has lately had built, by English archi
tects, two beautiful palaces, is said to be very populous, and there
are established in it fifty English schools, chiefly by the Missionaiies.
They have about five or six thousand troops, which are trained and

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The volume is Selections from the records of the Bombay Government , compiled and edited by Robert Hughes Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Political Department, New Series: 24 (Bombay: Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1856).

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1 volume (364 folios)
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The volume contains an abstract of contents on p. iii, a detailed list of contents on pp. vii-xx, an alphabetical index on pp. xxi-xxvii, and a list of maps etc on p. xviii.

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Pagination: two separate pagination sequences are present in the volume. The first sequence (pp. i-xviii) commences at the first page and terminates at the list of maps (p. xviii). A second pagination sequence then takes over (pp. 1-688), commencing at the title page and terminating at the final page. Both these pagination sequences are printed, with additions in pencil, and the numbers are found at the top (left, right or centre) of each page.

The fold-outs in this volume were not paginated by the publisher. As a result, these have been foliated using the nearest page number. For example, the fold-out attached to p.51 has been numbered as 51A.

Pagination anomalies: pp. 15, 15A; 45, 45A; 49, 49A; 51, 51A; 531, 531A.

The following pages need to be folded out to be read: 15A, 45A, 51A, 327-328, 531A.

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