with the refractory natives will be brought to a pieceful settelment without much trouble or anxiety. I was delighted to see the great change the trip did for Douglas. He was quite another person all together and it shews you that he was never constituted for office work. The truth is I dread the keeping him at such work for any length of time. He was born for station work or outdoor work of some kind and never will do with confinement. He has plenty to look after outside that would be more to your advantage and his own than craming his head full of law. I do not see that those gentlemen are any brighter than other people. After all, stock and sheep improvements, when learned young will never be effaced from one and that is what Douglas would shine in in a very short time