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my statement without farther question. Indigo, I 

 was able to promise him that I would undertake 

 to cultivate, and make serviceable to his people by 

 teaching them how to manufacture the dye, if that 

 I recovered my health after the rains subsided, and 

 which it was expected they would in the middle of 

 this month (September). He inquired very par- 

 ticularly into the process, and I explained it to 

 him as well as I could, and he complimented me 

 by saying, that my services in thus extending a 

 knowledge of useful arts among his children (sub- 

 jects) would be of more value than all the rich 

 gifts that had been brought to him by the com- 

 mander (our ambassador). I was then asked for 

 some medicine for his brother who was sick, Beth- 

 lehem interpreting the whole conversation that took 

 place upon this subject. 



