Abstract: This item consists of a copy of a Political Despatch (the covering letter of the Despatch is absent and only the enclosures are present) from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 9 January 1874 and received by the India Office via Brindisi on 2 February 1874, forwarding a copy of letters from the Political Agent and Consul-General, Zanzibar, and the First Assistant to the Political Agent, Zanzibar, reporting information they have received regarding the murder of Lieutenant Marcus MacCausland, RN [Royal Navy], at the village of Kionga [Quionga, Mozambique] on the African Coast, some way north of Lamo [Lamu] on 15 September 1873. (MacCausland is confirmed as the commander of the
Daphne'who demanded the slave dhow and slaves from the Governor of Lamo, being under the impression that the Governor was only keeping the slaves in order to ship them when the coast was clear' (see Political No. 204 of 1873 IOR/L/PS/6/114, ff 29-31a, although there is no apparent connection of this incident with his murder).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 122, and terminates at f 125, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains one foliation anomaly: f 122a.
