" cannot give sufficient time to the study of the language, and secondly
" that such progress in the
language
as will fit a
a man
to
" become an Interpreter cannot be
expected unless he can devote
"the whole of his time to the
"
study of the Chinese language.
that soon
I am to remind
you after the present Governor's
arrival at the end of April, and
the first occasion on
which
you mentioned
on
saw His Excellency, you that not one of the few students who attended four times
made, in the
times a month had
year 1876, the progress
that had been expected, and
you
expressed a wish to
were
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resign; whereupon
requested to continue
your
You
operations as usual until the Governor could decide what should be done.
The Governor desires
me to add that the negative
result of the
experiment which
has been tried in this matter, is
in no
degree owing to any
on
want.
any
your part, or to
on the part of
of real lack of industry
the Officers who had the advantage of receiving your instruction four mornings
in each
month, but to such obvious
sources of failure
as Mr Austin's
minute indicates, and which