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sum remained for him to receive this year.
Furthermore, I he did not get a single
"sous" last year for "his savages" - so he
expenses himself - in consequence of his papers
having been detained at Sydney, in Justice Mombourquet's
office, lying in quarantine with small pox on
board; and that on applying to you he received
for answer that all the money allowed for the
Indians has been distributed
Perhaps you will be so good as to set
His Reverance right on these points; or to enable
me to do so -
I am nearly as much in the dark as
the Revd gentleman himself, not knowing how
or where to obtain the journals and proceedings of
the "[illegible]" - Possibly the members may be
furnished with these, but I have not the
advantage of being on such terms with the
gentleman that I could ask for a loan of these
papers. In the only instance where I did so,
the most material part of the copies was found to
be missing.
M. Courteau is also perplexed how to
protect "his savages" from the Scotch trespassers
who