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226 DR. McLoucHLiN TO SIMPSON

Besides unloading two vessels from London, loading 2 for Sitka unloading 1 from California loading 1 for London

Do. 2 for Woahoo

Do. the Cadboro and assisting to take the outfits to the interior to the Snake country, and bringing down the re- turns and in fact, if the season had not been healthier than usual, we would not have got through with our work.

12. You say there were no fewer than ten officers, say, J. McLoughlin James Douglas D. Harvey A. L. Lewis D. McTavish G. Roberts

C. Dodd John O'Brien William Tod

D. McLoughlin

When you wrote this paragraph, you must have overlooked the passage in my letter which states that C. F. Douglas would be employed for the summer in removing* the people from Fort McLoughlin and Tacko [Taku] and in erecting the establishment on the south end of Vancouver's Island; Mr. Roberts had left fall 1842; Mr. Dodd had been sent here by Mr. Manson without any instruction from me and I sent him back by first opportunity to Stikine ; I had to send Mr. Tod to the interior on account of his health, and Mr. O'Brien at the time you wrote was with you so that we remained during the busy season

J. McLoughlin

D. McTavish, store and office

D. McLoughlin, shop

'Governor Simpson had ordered these posts abandoned.