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4. As I found even the additional four men insufficient, and moreover 
was out of pocket by the arrangement, as the men conld not be got for 
less than 14. per month, and expect rations when they are employed 
away from Bathurst, I engaged two more men, and drew the available 
horse allowance of the superintendent of police whose duties the Admini- 
strator is at premi perm and with thesé six men, in addition to a 
small gang of co have succeeded in reducing the grounds to 
something like pias but dier grows so rapidly in this country that 
the men have to be constantly employed even to keep the place clear. 
5. I hope in time to render this space both ornamental and productive, 
I A planted à number of co coa-nuts, — and plantains, and 
intend to experiment upon other economic trees and plants. I find that 
amongst some plants sent out to Administ ies Maloney from Kew there 
is a valuable rubber-producing tree, the Ceara Rubber (Manihot 
Glaziovi 
6. As yin tree evidently thrives M oues in the soil of the Gambia, 
its introduction here cannot fail to of immense advantage to the 
the personal care which I shall be able to devote to them, that they 
will be successfully established. 
7. Your Lordship cannot fail to realise the importance of the exten- 
pem of economie botany in a place like this, which is deseris depen- 
nt upon one staple, and I feel sure that I may count upon generous 
assistance from the Colonial — in my endeavours to introduce new 
or extended industrial source 
e grave drawback at “Government House is the want of good 
waterin the dry season ; there are four wells, but the water in all of them 
is brackish. At the Military Hospital a short distance off there is good 
water, and much time and labour is wasted by the necessity of conveying 
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intention to go on digging in various places at Government House until 
I find good water, for it is a curious circumstance in this place that a 
brackish well and one with sweet water may be found within a few 
yards of each other 
9. It is my intention to ask your Lordship to allow me to place the 
. sum of 300/.in aa Estimates for 1889 to enable me to carry on my 
xperiments. This sum to be devoted to labour, the digging of wells, 
and if necessary prowling large tanks for the storage of rain-water. I 
propose also if practicable to get a gardener from Madeira who will be 
able to superintend the work under my directions and see that the men 
do not idle. During the present rainy season I have had to do a great 
deal SL with the result that for some weeks I was far from well, 
though fortunately not incapacitated from work—the season, however, 
n an unhealthy one, and there has been a good deal of fever 
has 
about, from which the Natives have Té e C— 
(Signed) - "o. T. CARTE 
cting Administr ator. 
The Right Hor. Lord Knutsford, G.C.M.G 
&c. &c. &c. 
LORD KNUTSFORD to Acting ADMINISTRATOR CARTER. 
Sir, Downing Street, November 15, 1888. 
I nave the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, 
separate, of 2nd ultimo, reporting what you had done with a view to 
turning "to profitable use the grounds of the Government House at 
