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is sufficient to cover expenses and yet I feel it my duty to ask for a small sum to be allowed to James Farquhar from the Island funds to reimburse him for clothes [illegible] supplied those distressed men. I presume I need say no more on the subject than mention that those seven sufferers were kindly furnished with dry wearing apparel and bedding and every other comfort within their reach by Farquhar and his family, a considerable part of the wearing apparel could not be immediately given up and some of it will never be returned and the man with a broken leg and the one with a frozen foot and one other of them had to remain at the Eastern Station 41 days until they were able to endure the fatigue of removal to my residence during which time they were cooked for, washed for, and otherwise attended to my entire satisfaction.
The "Ottoman" has become a total wreck and the cargo left in her by Capt Pike is all lost but the standing rigging we saved in good order. The oils Salmon and Herring are lying on the bar where they were put when landed. The latter are nearly all covered with sand. The codfish are scattered everywhere. The Chain Cable left fast to the wreck is [parted?] and it and the anchor lies burried in the sand and can be got with some considerable labour. If the hull and cargo have not been already sold I think the latter had better be sold where it lies unless some other vessel than the Daring can be had to come for it. It will perish before she takes it off
unless