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Band 3.

may be the entire cause of the foggy atmosphere of the Exped.

It seems to me that there is a screw loose somewhere. -

I told the Directors in New York that the line from the Straits to the Head of Frazer River could be [[underlined]] completed [[/underlined]] by the last of October 1866 - I said distinctly that if I could commence at [[?mo]] of Youkon June 1st/65 [[underlined]] I [[/underlined]] could build it. - And I could have done so. - (I could have done it [[strikethrough]] on [[/strikethrough]] had I started from here May 10th via the Frazer.) - [[strikethrough]] It [[/strikethrough]] It appeared to me that it was some what upon my statement that the Directors wrote the Dispatch they did to Col Bulkley. - Prof Cutting knows about this I think.

Now they may perhaps think that [[strikethrough]] the w [[/strikethrough]] any delay that follows may be my fault. therefore these precautions in