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to perform the Voyage to any part of India in Six Weeks from [indecipherable], Canvas & Rope being a very high Price in that part of [World?] & surely Government has the best right to draw any advantage from these Colonies -
Hops I fear will never reach this they run & spindle so fast on the passage within the Tropics -
I shall make a Hhd [hogshead] of Wine this Year, if it answere I certainly shall present Lady Banks with an example of it - Mrs King & myself unite in our best Respectful Compliments to Lady B & your self & are both highly honoured by your kind attention My Family is now increased by Two Males & one Females -
If [Quick?] & Aloes can both be sent it would be very Acceptable, but it will be necessary to Consign them particularly to Norfolk Island -
I hope the Circumstances which have lately taken place on this Island between the Inhabitants & an undisciplined Soldiery over whom their Officers had lost all Command will be stated in its proper light, as every document is gone home respecting it I must request you & all my friends to suspend their judgement untill it is cleared up - Thank God