Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1878-08-05)

not as common as my former statement may have led you to believe, in fact such big ones are rather rare: but the chances are that I will get at least one "old settler" be- fore I have to leave here.

    After this my mail facilities will be very

poor indeed, & you may sometimes be three weeks or more without a letter. Do not be atall alarmed if the interval should be four or five weeks, but still I hope to get a letter to you every fortnight anyhow. If you hear that I have been knocked on the head, or am lost somewhere, don't you believe a word of it except what </u I > tell you. Remember that if I strike a good lead after Oranga I shall follow it up to the very end, and so long as I keep well we are not going to stick at trifles. However, let us not be </u too > sure of anything in this world, even of a dinner that is eaten for I have before now seen men cheated out of even that.

  It is more than likely that a prompt

answer to this will find me still here in Borneo, but direct to Singapore all the same. Remember if I get so many as </u ten > orangs, or even 6 or 8 </u big > ones I shall send you a little cable message. If you reply, address simply "Hornaday, Singapore."

    Am in glorious health & spirits. Write

often & fully. Now I take a header into the jungles. Yours faithfully Wm T. Hornaday.