In a postscript to the letter, he requested Allan Ramsay to hand over to the bearer some of the clothes left in his lodgings, and to pay him for his trouble.
"As to the money I left in your hands, I do not think it worth while for you to send it.

However much these men may consider me a comrade, I have not sufficient faith in their honesty to believe that money would reach me safely; but, if you send me a suit of clothes, two or three gold pieces might be wrapped up in a piece of cloth and shoved into the toe of a shoe.

The parcel must be a small one, or there would be little chance of the man carrying it far.

I will ask him, however, to bring me a sword, if you will buy one for me, and my pistols." He folded up the letter and gave it to the captain.

There was no means of fastening it, but this mattered little, because, being written in English, there was no chance of its being read.