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APRIL, 1902.)
THE ANDAMANS IN THE XVIITH CENTURY.
209
May
1 Ma.
1 do.
Bengal Hoes worn out Pick Axes do. ... ... .. Spades
do. Hatchets
do. .. ... Expence of Candles for three Months Oil ... ... ... - Enrope Rope for Boats Moorings Tickles &c Iron for Sundry ... ... .. Dammer for paying the Boats Oil for mixing ditto ... .. Ditto for Artificers Lamps &c. Oil for Lamps &c. ... ... ... Felling Axes ... Hatchets ... ... ...
2 Coils. 4 Mds.
Jude
8 do.
ly
Md.
I do hereby certify upon my honor that the above account is true and just.
(Sig4) Archibald Blair. 1793. - No. XXV.
Fort William 8th May 1793. Read a Letter from the Superintendent at the Andamans.
Major Kyd 18th April. Edward Hay Esq Secretary to Government, Fort William.
Sir, - I beg you will be so good, as to acquaint the Most Noble Marquis Cornwallis Gover for General in Council that I have this day dispatched for Calcutta the Viper Snow, under Charge of Lieutenant Roper ;-Since I had the honor of addressing his Lordship in Council by the Union there has been no occurrence of any consequence, I have only the pleasure of saying therefore that every thing is going on well at this Settlement and that I have hopes, that the Stores and Provisions and all the People will be under cover before the setting in of the Rains.
When the Sea Horse Snow returned last from the Coops, she brought from that Island, John Bell, a MIU Wright and one Native of Madras who were the only remaining part of a small settlement which had been formed there about fourteen Months ago by some speculators at Madras, for the purpose of Manufacturing Coooanut Oil by means of a Wind Mill which they had actually erected; but in the Month of May last their employers having neglected to send them any Assistance the Workmen in a fit of despondency took the rash Resolution of embarking on a slight Raft with a very small quantity of Provisions and Water, and there cannot be a doubt that they must all have perished; since that period John Bell and one Man, have remained in the Island in hopes of receiving Assistance from Madras, but being reduced to the greatest distress & Misery for want of every necessary, they were glad to leave the island before
