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influence to obtain some encouragement and remunera- 

 tion for the hardships and sacrifices this young man is 

 undergoing, and which though not undertaken in the im- 

 mediate employ of the Colony, must ultimately prove 

 highly beneficial to its general interest. Allow me to 

 repeat the expe6lations he expresses on this head in the 

 letter I send you, which I merely translate from the 

 German original. After stating that the means allowed 

 him by the Geographical Society were all consumed 

 in his two former expeditions, before the preparation of 

 the present one, and that the expenses he incurred on 

 his own account, to supply himself with provisions for 

 himself and crew, and articles of traffic with the Indians 

 in the interior, amounted to upwards of two hundred 

 Pounds Sterling, all which articles and the greatest part 

 of the provisions were unfortunately lost in the month of 

 September by an accident upsetting one corial and by 

 the other getting upon a rock, he continues : " Would it 

 not be possible for my friends in this part of the world 

 to forward my interest ? I have traversed the Colony 

 since the last three years from North to South, have 

 examined its boundaries from the Essequebo to the 

 Corentyn, and would the Colonists look on quietly that I 

 should sacrifice not only my health and constitution, but 

 even my personal pecuniary means? Surely not. New 

 South Wales and Van Diemen'S Land, not to be com- 

 pared with Demerary in wealth, have remunerated similar 

 exploratory travels with munificence. I should not like 

 to appear hereafter before the public as an indigent 

 mendicant, and should it be thought that my exertions 

 and sacrifices be unworthy of any acknowledgement, I 

 will rather bear all expenses on my own account, what- 



