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any means cover his expenses—necessary ones, I am getting extra 
things (clothes) for him, for the warm things I got before are becoming 
unbearable in the heat of the Chicago summer. Judging by what it is 
already, it is not difficult to believe that it goes up to over 100 deg. in 
the shade later on. 
As far as Ican judge now, you will have to advance me another 
$2,coo—the amount, that is, that I would have had in hand, had I been 
able to sell the catalogues and handbooks. If I send the handbooks to 
Guiana, you will realise quite $1,500 or at least $1,250 on them; and at 
the end of the Fair, the things sold will certainly realise quite $800 or 
more. You will thus see that the $2,000 that you will send me in 
advance, will be recouped for certain, at the end—the only thing is that 
I shall want it in advance to go on with. I do not think you will have 
any difficulty in understanding my position—I have put the matter as 
clearly as I can, and not very briefly either. Again I will draw to your 
attention, that the desired advance is not by any means due to my 
expenditure ;: it is simply a matter of the handbook. 
Astothe Indians, I have nothing further to add; I am now only wait- 
ing to hear what you have done. My last letter to Mr. Rodway or 
rather to the Committee will have reached you before any Indians could 
have been sent off; and will have put you in possession of all informa- 
tion [ could give as to what was wanted. The aboriginal Indians would 
be enormously appreciated and popular up here, and the more the 
better, but unless the advance of $2,000 is made, if they come, I am 
afraid I shall wish them at Jericho (that isto say Guiana) instead, 
I send four clippings from the newspapers to give you some idea of 
what is said publicly of us, From these you will see, from an independent 
standpoint, that I have done (as I tried to do it) my duty by the colony 
and its exhibit to the fullest of my capacity. Luckily I am quite well 
and fit now, but the accomplishment of the main part of my task, to be 
ready by the first of May, and under the conditions of weather and 
exposure through which I had to work, was only performed at a con- 
siderable personal risk. Doctors’ bills and many cabs are some of the 
accompaniments that lessened to some extent the risks of exposure. 
Coming straight up from the tropics, the risks to me meant more than 
it did to others, and from the faét of coming alone, I had always to face, 
even when unwell from cold and exposure, work that others with three 
or four on the Commission could avoid, Many others did not suffer in 
the horrible weather, simply from the fact that they stayed in their 
