also suggest to you and to the Police Magistrate to unite and oppose every attempt at encroachment get the Natives to assist you in preventing it and failing in these means the sooner you can have a force to put a stop to it the better, I would not purchase another acre of land until the Natives agreed to remove every annoyance. Neither would I allow them (were I Captn. King) to be exorbitant in their demands for land by waiting he will be able to purchase upon reasonable terms - be careful not to mix yourself up with land purchases give your advice privately and assist them as such by every possible means give the Natives