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Soho July 21.81
Dear Sir
hearing the highest opinion both of your Zeal & intelligence I have contrivd as far as I had influence to make your orders discretional & I hope they will be found so in all matters except those which you & I agreed together were certainly proper, as for touching at madagascar[sic] it is mentioned because I suppose it impossible that water brought from Timor or the coast of Java can last to St Helena or if it should can after so long a confinement in Cask retain the vivifying power as a [indecipherable] to Plants which fresh new water always has in Case however of Plenty of Rain water being caught that measure will be unnecessary.
No mention is made of the French Islands tho it would be highly desirable that you should bring the clove and nutmeg from them for two reasons the one that time you expect to be in these latitudes is the hurricane season the other that the natives being in imitation of their ancestors in France shaken off the Yoke of Regular Government might if they thought it convenient seize your ship or do any of this kind of mischief upon very slight Pretence