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my order here, it was fully considered that at least another $2,000 
would be at my disposal through the sale of the handbooks. As this 
sale would have been throughout the six months, this amount would 
certainly have been to my credit before the end of the Fair, had it been 
possible to sell the handbooks : and though the expenses of the Indians, 
had they been sent, would have absorbed a good deal of this, certainly it 
would not have absorbed more than about $1,000 or $1,200. This would 
still have left me in hand some $1,000 or $300, more than I now haye, 
to meet the miscellaneous expenditure of carpentering, packing, 
customs dues, transportation and freight charges, etc. 
As no money was derived from the handbooks, there was no option 
but for me to ask for an equivalent amount to be sent tome, True we 
shall realise something by the sale of many of the exhibits, but the 
awkward tact is that these things can only be sold at the end of the 
Fair, and unless I stayed up here till the end of December and left all 
packing and despatch of things till then, so that I should have no 
expenditure for freight till after the things were sold. I could hardly 
utilise this money direétly. As I have said already, I do not anticipate 
that any more money will be spent than what [ have in hand 
together with what we get for things sold—but I need more 
money in hand to meet current expenditure for freight, storage 
transportation, etc., until the money from sales is realised. I have 
enough for the personal expenses of myself and the Indian, and 
for our return passages, and for part freight and carpentering, 
but all working expenses in Chicago are extremely high; and 
they have to be met at the time. I had no desire to have myself placed 
in the unenviable position of being called upon to pay out moneys 
which I could not at once meet. I suppose it is impossible for you in 
Guiana to put yourself in my place to understand the conditions of 
things as they are cropping up now at the end of the Fair in Chicago. 
Everybody is trying to pack up and clear out as soon as possible, scarcity 
and dearness of labour, and a great emporium of stuff thrown on the 
market from all parts of the world, and the greater part of it for sale! 
I asked at least that what money was at the disposa! of the Committee 
should be sent on to me, because | have to pay—prepay—all charges 
for freight on this side, It was easy from Georgetown to send on things 
and to collect, in Georgetown, charges afterwards—here they have to be 
paid to begin with—else they would not be forwarded at all. It was 
thus of no use for the Committee to keep exhibition money in hand 
