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and provoked me to strike him this morning. I know that you will disapprove of such conduct nor do I approve of it myself and it is now nearly twelve years since I struck a man in anger but he, Brady, refused to stop a team that was moving in a wrong direction. When I called to him to do so | the teamsters being absent | and when I told him to take his hands out of his pockets and do his work he told me that he would keep his hands in his pocket and stand where he was just as long as he pleased and told me that I was not able to make him do otherwise nor had I any man on the Island able to do it. When I instantly with foot and fist convinced him that he had made a mistake when he took my dimensions.
Respecting the proper time for shipping horses from this I think that the latter part of July is the most suitable.
The Island is over stocked with pigs. May I send off a dozen by Daring, next trip.
May I carry a deck load of deals from the NE bar to the principal station when the Daring returns.
There is nothing about the wreck of the Ottoman that is worth more than the labour of saving it. So she ought to go low to us, if other parties purchase they will lose their money. The cable and anchor lying in the sand may be got, but not by any other than the Island even, and perhaps we may not be able to get the cable altho we think we can. We should get it at a low figure. I enclose a list of articles kept for the