Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part I

No. 175.
Mr. Case to Mr. Fish.

Navy Department,
Washington, October 30, 1872. (Received October 31.)

Sir: Commander Byron Wilson, in a communication dated Gibraltar, October 4, acknowledges the receipt of the Department’s modification of his orders, made at the request of the Secretary of State, to visit Zanzibar instead of Muscat, in the Yantic.

I have, &c,

A. LUDLOW CASE,
Acting Secretary of the Navy.