and we were to lose him I really
if s
Ch
Know not where to look for properly qualified person to fill his place, and he, though most pushing and efficient in the local dialect
Morrise of requisite in
HongHang
this Colony, is totally unacquainted
with that of any
other
province,
and has no Knowledge whatever
We have two
other Interpreters, who are Chinese
and there parties:
we are
compelled
to Keep in the absence of any others, and my own opinion
being opposed to having Chinese in these appointments, who are seldom to be trusted, I deem it my duty
to
suggest
three well evented
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Young Gentlemen being sent out from Home to become eventually useful Interpreters to the Colony and whose Salaries should be raised in accordance with their progress in the Chinese languages of the Provinces of Kwangtung and Fokien principally
principally, as well
as
that of the Mandarin, the latter is likewise required than the two former,
but
viewing this Colony as I do, in
a gradually improving state, I anticipate greater intercourse
with the Mandarins than we now hold and with whom at
present no Correspondence is maintained by Europeans only, Chinese being used.