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also inclose a collection of Papers ested in the margin giving all the information which & nithens popep on the subject.
of
From these Papers it appears and the Bonin Islands form a connement rendezvous for whating Vepels, and in the event of the trade bring opened with Jehan, would form a good station for Vepels engaged in dary replains the careful survey of tho Islands made by him at arising from his conviction that they with eventually be a mesful Port for lepels trading? between China and the westers Coust of America the population
in that trade; & Commodore
On the other hand
on the Islands is small
and
Consul Charlton last.
G6 Miller Lofa: 20/60
In Buber Set:18 Aduurites Oct:3.
And as
far
as the pepers
now mclosed
are concerned, there is no reason to expect
it to mcrease unless it shall be formed into a settlement by America or great Britain, and
you will see
from those Papers that the few settters on the Islands are completity at the mercy fthe Parties of disorderly seament occasionally discharged at the Meland from whaling theips, as well as exposed to more sestituatur ano operacy on the part of Refeels trading
Vespels Leas-
acto
in those
There seems tobe no doubt that the Islands were taken popepsion of
in the name in the year 1827; and as
of the British brown
Sou
will
Lee