"مُلخّص المراسلات المتعلّقة بشؤون زنزبار من ١٨٥٦ إلى ١٨٧٢." أعدّه النقيب ب. د. هندرسون، الملحق بالإدارة الخارجية" [ظ‎‎١‎١‎٢] (١١٤/٦٤)

Events at Zanzibar from the arbitration to the death of Syed Majid-
elude a commercial treaty with the Sultan and to arrange certain boun
dary questions. The boundary of Zanzibar on the south, it may be here
observed, is conterminous with that of the Portuguese Settlements : a line
drawn from Cape Delgado inland would, Colonel Pelly said, define the two
territories. It was apparently the object of Portugal to secur v e a line northward
of that point, with the view of embracing the valley of the Koovoma River,
and thus command the trade which might be expected to develope along that
line. Colonel Pelly appears to have succeeded in gaining the confidence of
Syed Majid very soon after his arrival at Zanzibar, for in November he wrote
that the latter had consulted him regarding the treaty with Portugal. Colonel
Pelly suggested many modifications in the draft treaty more favorable to the
Sultan and to Pritish interests.
On his way to Zanzibar Colonel Pelly had visited the Comoro Islands, and
thence touched at the Portuguese Settlement at Iboo, of which he gave an
unfavorable description. The place was notorious for its export of slaves.
one ot these settlements. Colonel Pelly said, paid their expenses.— (Political
Ai January 1802, ivos. 211.22S.J
58. O utbreak on mainland of Z anzibar.— An outbreak on the main
land opposite to Zanzibar was reported by Colonel Pelly in November 1861.
Lnr^r 8 C ri d T 0n ^? r Tf trlbes from the interior > as usual, annoying the
more direct subjects of the Sultan on the coast line :
1 " 7 hc P 1 ? 1 . 11 fact 18 " said Colonel Pelly, " that the Sultan's power is verv slight and undefined
ong bis African possessions. He has stepped into the shoes of the Portuguese • he holds
the islands as forts; he exercises over the softer and agricultural tribes, and mixed breeds
the low shore, a certain degree of authority, but dare not tax them, nor advance any "overn
mental claim on the soil. As to the more inland tribes along his ill-recoa-S fron^r the^r
of th 0 eir Imm^™^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ by the re^rn^
Colonel Pelly concluded—•
tion I '/m IIIT an ' ioi [ ,a 1 tc ' no 1 wth f the supply of the northern blood is cnt off by the senara
as.- • d ™'
lli^by's rio-ht to haul flf>u-n u i r 1? ca lled m question Colonel
'■ undoubted national offence," and thktln c^nmttiteT' 81011 ^ n0t 0116 ^
British rep resell tative^a the r 1 1 h a if to "his soirm^hd^Ttm h^rfflelafpls^ ^ tbe
that the Government trusts. Colonel Pelly wrot e
The Lail l^ us sell,acknowledging Lieutenant-Pnlnnoi p* i >
tions, instructs me to acquaint His Hiffhnoss fh s if c 'gby s report of the same transac-
s.