You may well be right. If, for the sake of argument, it was the Charles Morgan who had leased land from Prinsep in the past, that may have developed into some kind of ongoing friendship or business relationship. Who knows, Prinsep may have been the owner or part-owner of a building that needed protection from white ants and Morgan may have been his tenant or a co-owner. When Prinsep wanted information regarding Aborigines in the Broome area, he may have written to Morgan in Broome to provide it and when Morgan needed arsenic to exterminate white ants, he sent a telegram to Prinsep to ship it with an additional note on a completely separate issue to advise that the “aborigines letter will follow". There may have been other correspondence between them which would have made everything perfectly clear … if it had survived. There is simply too little known about the situation to be sure what those 8 words in the telegram were really about.
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