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                <principal>Christopher Lawrence</principal>
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                    <date type="composition" when="1863">[1863?]</date>
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<lb/><p rend="no-indent">on arriving at the <placeName>Mission</placeName><!-- unsure if placeName tags are appropriate. BL.--> <add place="above" rend="gray" hand="#U"><date when="1863">1863</date>?</add> <add rend="red" hand="#U">27</add>
<lb/>please select any papers
<lb/>or articles likely to be valued
<lb/>by <choice><sic><persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Thornton</persName>s</sic><corr><persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Thornton</persName>'s</corr></choice> friends
<lb/>and take them if the canoe
<lb/>will admit them</p>
<lb/><p>Be good enough to proceed
<lb/>with all convenient speed
<lb/>down the river and make
<lb/>enquiries of <persName>Tito</persName><!-- not entirely certain who Fito is, Portuguese slaver? BL.--><space extent="1" unit="words"/>or
<lb/><persName>Bandeira</persName> or <persName>Vianna</persName>'s
<lb/>representative about sending
<lb/>up a canoe with 100 <unclear>panjas</unclear>
<lb/>of <term type="foodstuff">rice</term> &amp; <term type="plant_foodstuff">Mexoeira</term>. <persName>Tito</persName>
<lb/>said that he would furnish
<lb/><term type="foodstuff">rice</term> cheaper than anyone
<lb/>else &amp; if he would undertake
<lb/>it the business would be

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<lb/>done better by him. <persName>Vianna</persName> <w>ch<gap extent="5" unit="chars"/><supplied>arges</supplied></w>
<lb/>more than double the ordinary
<lb/>price for grain. &amp; a canoe <gap extent="3" unit="chars" agent="illegible"/>
<lb/>cost with cause men &amp; canoe
<lb/>£21. It must be got even <unclear>at</unclear><!-- might be the word "at", might be a longer word that starts with at. BL. -->
<lb/>that but if it is to be had
<lb/>any cheaper the sender will <w><unclear>b</unclear><supplied>e</supplied></w>
<lb/>quite as content. <choice><sic>and</sic><corr>And</corr></choice> we <unclear>mor</unclear></p>
<lb/><p>The boat I should like
<lb/>to be employed to bring up
<lb/>whatever may be found fo<gap extent="1" unit="chars"/><supplied>r</supplied>
<lb/>us but if nothing has been lef<gap extent="1" unit="chars"/><supplied>t</supplied>
<lb/>or came from <placeName><country><choice><orig>Mosambique</orig><reg>Mozambique</reg></choice></country></placeName>
<lb/>then it may have <term type="plant_foodstuff">mexoeina</term>
<lb/>or <term type="foodstuff">rice</term> and <placeName><settlement><choice><sic>shupanga</sic><corr>Shupanga</corr></choice></settlement></placeName>
<lb/><space extent="1" unit="words"/><add place="inspace" rend="small">of ten to serve six months at a</add>
<lb/>crew <add place="below">^</add>. Our former ones i<gap extent="1" unit="chars"/><supplied>f</supplied>
<lb/><space extent="2" unit="words"/><add place="inspace" rend="small">to relieve those here</add>
<lb/>possible - Any dispatchers
<lb/>that may <add place="below">^</add> <add place="above">have</add> arrived to be hastene<gap extent="1" unit="chars"/><supplied>d</supplied>
<lb/>up in <choice><sic><persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Thornton</persName>s</sic><corr><persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Thornton</persName>'s</corr></choice> boat - 
<lb/>part of the ten <placeName><settlement><choice><sic>shupanga</sic><corr>Shupanga</corr></choice></settlement></placeName> men</p>

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