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took land on Shares and suffered everything to raise a crop which by the drought has been in some cases entirely destroyed.

The Government has cut off her usual supplies and the result is that some of the people are nearly destitute. Can there not be some means devised for their immediate relief. If you can invent some means of assistance, it will be a great occasion for gratitude and rejoicing."

He does not blame the whites but speaks of them kindly, but as I understand it & from what our Superintendent wrote all thro that section of the state the destitution & suffering from the drought must be terrible.