explain the case to the chiefs which will satisfy them on the subject and in the mean time you might get the case up carefully and shew it to Whittaker. I think I shall let Irving take all the men the Cordelia can carry and go tomorrow to Taranaki. If you have any thing to send let me have it tonight. I fear Parris is sadly neglected. Believe me in great haste, Yours sincerely, T. G. B.