21 September 1868 Glenorchy My dear Donald The last week I had no rest at night for three nights with dreams about you and I am convinced you must be in some deep watter with this miserable Government that are to all appearances doing all they can to destroy the country and make the natives that you laboured so hard in gaining over to lose all confidence in the government and from what I hear a great many of the friendlier are gaving way and I think no wonder at it when a man like Whitmore is allowed so much power in matters he knows so little about. A man detested both by black and white and a man by all accounts if he would answer would never tell the truth. That is the character he gets from all that know him both rich and poor. I must tell you that Mr Ormond's speech oppened