شؤون زنجبار [و‎‎٦‎٩] (١٨/١)

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No. 63 or 1871.
GOYEKNMENT OF INDIA.
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT.
SECRET.
To
His Grace the DUKE OF ARGYLL, K. T.,
Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India.
Simla, the 10/^ October 1871.
My Lord Duke,
In continuation of our despatch to Your Grace’s address,
No. 56, dated 7th September 1871, and of the Viceroy’s telegram of the
18th idem, No. 1975P., we have the honor to forward further papers, as per
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annexed Abstract of Contents, regarding the Affairs of Zanzibar.
2. With reference to the communication from the Government of
Bombay, No. 4118, dated 30th August 1871, we solicit Your Grace’s atten
tion to the forcible illustration therein afforded, of the evils resulting from
the present dual system of conducting the relations of the British Govern
ment with Zanzibar. From considerations of the doubtful aspect of affairs
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there, we had refrained from according to Syud Burgash any further recogni
tion than what was due to the de facto possessor of authority. at Zanzibar
for the time being. It is readily conceivable, that had affairs at Zanzibar
taken a different turn, (of which there appeared at one tirae some probability),
we might have felt it our duty to have withheld formal recognition. In such
an event serious difficulties would have arisen, if, after this had become
known to the Sultan, he had received a letter of recognition from Pier
Majesty’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. So long as the present
system continues, there is at all times a liability to complications of a similar
character, and if the political relations of the Government of India with
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