_ 210 _ regarding your interests. I only want to say that in one year and ten days that I served in the treasury I was so fortunate that no more than twenty-four horses died, and two clerks who served only one year lost more than hundred horses, which they found dead. The account and expenses book for the horses was lost and a new one substituted. I also undertook the valuations of timber which was purchased. Other things it was not possible to prevent. Sir, I am now forty-seven and of good character, without children or anything which obligates me to more than to have enough to eat in this short and laborious life. I venture to serve as the guardian of your property, lodging in the same buildings, which I am forced to do to enable me to keep watch on them. Thus, from there I see the loading and unloading of the horses, of which I also venture to take charge, and they do not go outside this island without being entered in a book in which I record their entry and exit and throw out the dead ones. The accounts of the treasurers are contained in my book, with that of your clerks. The timber is not valued without me and that which is in the orders that the factors pass to the warehouse keepers to take receipt of is not taken. into account except on my signature, because this timber has to be entered in a book
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