sell at present; stating that at a future period they would prefer selling their lands gradually, in small portions, than in extensive Blocks. Their ideas, and those of the natives generally, of the value of land, are extravagant; arising in a great measure from exaggerated statements made by Europeans, of the princes they have paid for the lands they occupy in this district; which tends so much to enhance and overrate, in their ideas, the intrinsic value of land, that nothing but a desire (which I am glad to observed they express) to have the Europeans settled among them, would induce them to accept of a moderate compensation for their claims. The number of natives of the tribe, resident, are 130. (Signed) D. McLean.