Taraia informs me that although the Natives have a large extent of this country but he is obliged to go further up the Thames to clear and occupy fresh tracts of land more level as the hilly country inhabited by him and his people at the Tahmes is too poor to maintain them. It is upwards of 13 years since I visited this part of the country and I see little or no traces of improvement since that period. The Natives are much the same now as they were then. Their superstitions have still a strong hold on them they do not appear more industrious no Europeans reside among