I must offer to you my sincere apologies for the delay
which has occurred in reporting to you officially on several
matters of importance. My excuse is simply this; that I have
been engaged on a work of vital interest to the colony for
many weeks, during which I was in a wild country, without pen
or paper and my communications with the civilized portions of
our territory generally
cut
cut off by the insurgent Indians.
2. I hope by increased exertions soon to make up for this
inevitable delay.