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disposal. We should have realised about $2,000, if we had sold 
them at 25c. per copy—and this I should have been able to use 
in paying return passages to Guiana of the Indians that you may send 
up, and in packing up and sending back whatever had to return from 
our exhibits, also in paying for extra light in Court, in storage of 
packing cases, and all the carpentering etc. that will have to be done at 
the end in clearing up our space. There will be hosts of small expenses 
at the close, and unless I can get from you additional funds to go on 
with, I am not at all clear now how I shall stand at the end. Ofcourse 
this difficulty is not due to increased or extravagant expenditure—this 
must be borne in mind. It is simply due to the fact that an expenditure 
of $2,000 was made from the grant, over the handbook, with the 
idea of its being recouped by sales. If we had known that the sales 
could not be made, no doubt the handbook would not have been 
printed. More than this, while it is quite true that the sales of our 
things will give me something in hand, this cannot be till after 
Oétober ; and if I have to pay return passages on many Indians, and as 
Mr. Rodway indicates, part passages here on their coming, from what I 
have in hand here, it will be a tighter fit than I should like to run. Of 
course our expenditure here is not finished. The main exhibit in the 
Agricultural building is done with except for the payment of the man 
in charge; and I have to pay quite $100 per month, owing to the fact 
that i have to arrange for caretakers from 8 o'clock in the morning till 
10,30 on most days, including Sundays—with sweeping and dusting 
which are serious matters owing to the clouds of dust that settle upon 
everything. The entire Ethnological exhibit has yet to be seen after. 
The building is only just finished, and I am only able to begin our 
seétion next week. We shall have a large amount of lumber and coals 
ete., to pay for and high carpenter’s wages. The Indian huts are not 
yet put up, owing to the fact that the ground is only just being graded 
for us. The whole of that seétion has been terribly delayed; and I 
could not do anything in the matter till things were straight. Of course 
everybody else is in the same boat. Our catalogue is yet to be printed, 
a8 I have already explained ; and many tickets to be arranged and paid 
fot hereafter. I have some written and explanatory tickets on most 
things, but this is only temporary. Beyond these and the other 
expenses already mentioned, my own allowance has to come out of what 
Ihave, and some additional expenditure for the Indian who is with me, 
for the thirty dollars a month which the Fair allows for him does not by 
