FL14425179

46
enclose them to me. I hope Mr Johnson's return to his native country will [indecipherable] to the [indecipherable] of his health. The [indecipherable] before us is rather unpleasant, we are upon short allowance of meat, & grain, from the public store, & it wants 3 months to the [indecipherable] . Many of the inhabitants have not a grain of wheat [indecipherable] in their [indecipherable] know is it to be bought. I [indecipherable] fed [indecipherable] in the [indecipherable] let us feel the dreadful calamity of famine. The harvest failed last year. The settlers in general [indecipherable] not [indecipherable] enough to [indecipherable] against the latter end of the year. Mr Pal[indecipherable] had a great light both for himself, & the colony, he had a large stock of wheat [indecipherable] - calculated at six thousand bushels. The [indecipherable] had sent the [indecipherable] to otaheite, & the other Islands to [indecipherable] ; he doesnt discountto establish a communication between [indecipherable] , & Otaheite,