the
new colonization works at Jezo, and to engage about twelve hundred skilled workmen
to be employed at the same
place.
I have, etc. (signed) A.G. Watson
COLONIAL
OFFICE
504
Jezo is a large island immediately North of Japan,
a link (in fact) connecting Japan with Saghalien
on the one hand & The Kuriles
on the other.
RB.u