This is only one of the points that have been overlooked by Colonel Mann, and the neglect of it seems to me to have arisen from that officer's having failed to propose, instructed, a scheme beneficial to all interests concerned: Colonel Mann does not appear to have done more than consider the question from a Military point of view. The Naval Commissioner, requiring little, has said little.
473 Mr ... cleverly alone has carried out discussions comprehensively and proposed a plan meeting the equitable and reasonable requirements of all parties.
The sanitary certificate by Drs Ainslie and Kane merits consideration, and I cannot help thinking that the actual direction of the wind at this place during the so-called South West Monsoon has not been accurately tested by those who advised the military.