I have the honor to transmit to you, for your information, a copy
of a letter from the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty forwarding
extracts from a letter from
Rear Admiral the Honorable G.F. Hastings,
Commanding the Pacific Squadron giving an account of his visit to the
gold Diggings of
Cariboo and
pointing![Manuscript image Manuscript image](https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~coldesp/jpg_scans/jpg_thumbnail/rg7_g8c_15/rg7_g8c_15_00286v.jpg)
pointing out the great difficulty that
would be experienced in sending any body of men from Her Majesty's
ship to that place.