Colonial Despatches

Despatch from London.

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Cardwell sends his approval of Seymour’s actions during late Expeditions into the country of the Chilicoten Indians however he does not understand the meaning of the paragraph in Seymour’s report that describes inviting every white man to shoot every Indian he might meet.