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I beg you will inform His Excellency the Governor, that 
I have on all occasions received the most ready and 
valuable assistance from Mr. Hume. His intimate ac- 
quaintance with the manners and customs of the natives, 
enabled him to enter into intercourse with them, and 
chiefly contributed to the peaceable manner in which we 
have journeyed, while his previous experience put it in his 
power to be of real use to me. I cannot but say he has 
done an essential service to future travellers, and to the 
colony at large, by his conduct on all occasions since he 
has been with me ; nor should I be doing him justice, if I 
did not avail myself of the first opportunity of laying my 
sentiments before the Governor, through you. I am happy 
to add that every individual of the party deserves my 
warmest approbation, and that they have, one and all, 
borne their distresses, trifling certainly, but still unusual, 
with cheerfulness, and that they have at all times been 
attentive to their duty, and obedient to their orders. The 
whole are in good health, and are eager again to start. 
I have the honor to be. 
Sir, 
Your most obedient and most humble servant, 
Charles Sturt, 
Capt. 39th Regt. 
The Honorable The Colonial Secretary. 
Mount Harris, 5th March, 1829. 
Sir, — It having appeared to me, that after discovering 
such a river as the one I have described in my letter of yes- 
