Prince Wales Island
My Dear Flinders
                              June 30^th 1799

        On my arrival at Calcutta
from the Spice Islands in June 1798, I
had the pleasure to receive all your kind
and intelligent letters.
      It gives me infinite satisfaction
to see that you are in a fair way of
doing well. –
      I will now communicate to
you the out lines of ^ ^my peregrinations
since my arrival in India
      On my arrival in Calcutta
in February –95 I found Doctor Roxburgh
Superintendent of the Botanic Garden.
      For the first two months, the Doctor