to be done yet, but I feel confident were you once able to come here for a short time yourself that much good would result from it. You wish me to send you an account of the expences of the station that I have not the least idea of as I do not know what wages the men receive & besides some weeks we have not many strangers and at other times the house is thronged with people. The natives are a great pest here. I have been doing all I could ever since I came to lesson the number of those people, and I have so far suceeded. Archy has done everything in his power to prevent it, indeed he is most