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Judge Begbie. 47
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a civil note regretting his inability to delay; but his owners have cer-
tainly lost several hundred dollars on the run by passengers left behind.
The complaints about him are loud, bitter, and universal, and only
soothed by the explanation that he is insane. On arriving off Queen-
borough he pitched overboard into the water (above low-water mark)
some bricks and barrels of lime, wch are rendered of little value, to
poor Captain Parsons’s great concern. I suppose you will have heard
of this from Coll. Moody.

I came down here on the “ Recovery” wch was towed down
here by the “ Maria 8 steamer—leaving a little after high water. It
took two hours to come down, I suppose, 13 miles. The weather is
very much agst any proceedings here; there is from 6 to 8 inches
of snow all over the site of Queenborough, and to-day it is snowing
fast. It is scarce possible to survey. The men® are in a log hut and
the Colonel” in a shake house. The face of the country is being gradu-
ally better known, although very little cleared. Two trout-streams
have been discovered: one running into the right of the bay opposite
the shoal; the other nearly opposite Tree island.” The latter runs for
a considerable distance, apparently, parallel to the Pitt R. and issues,
like the Pitt, from a lake in the mountains. This confirms, as far as
it goes, the opinion formed on the January explorations, that there is
a larger space between the sea and the Pitt or Bedford Lake than the
map wod lead us to suppose.

I drew for the expenses of some of the witnesses at the trial two
bills on Captn Gosset™ for $183 and $53. I also paid the expenses
of bringing the 2 prisoners here and placing them in custody of
Mr. Nicol, $65. Total, $331. With respect to one witness, James
Brown, the partner of the deced man, he had been mainly instru-
mental, according to his own account, wch I believe to be truly, in
tracking and securing the criminal ; in fact, his evidence was attempted
to be shaken on the ground of the strong personal animosity wch he
had displayed. And he very frankly admitted that he would have fol-
lowed the prisoner equally if he had never expected a reward; but that
he thought the Government could pay, and might as well do so, and
that he suggested another $100. I explained to him that I could order
no such payment without further sanction (although I am not sure

(68) Sce note (64), ante, p. 45. This steamer was brought u
note » ante, b s gz P on a barge from San Fran-
cisco, and the ‘ Umatilla,’”? which had been bought off by opposing interests, was taken packitta

(70) Colonel Moody.

(71) The former of these two ‘‘ trout streams ”’ is the Brunette; the latter, th i
Judge Begbie, it may be added, was an enthusiastic sportsman. ¥ # Saccanie:

Se The Colonial Treasurer,