:
6.
The variety of dialects in the Colony
Eo gerah that free communcation lor Among the Chuise themselves to not
always possible without the aid
Interpreters.
of
I mention this simply to
a
hostile
show how lazy
it would be for. Critic to disparage, in this Colony, onl Itnowledge of Chuurse, and how easy it
foould be to put a very fair Chuusee Scholar into a difficutting, if
bent on doring Eo.
one were only
7. I regret now that I did not
Call albution to this at a time when
the Huvoledge of Chuisse povorozed by a Member of Officers in the dewice was publicly decried, and the statementà publicly made that one Officer, and
Die
one only,
1887
Maw anything of Chuurse -
Knowledge of
-
Chrize like a knowledge of
| anything else to a matter of degree, and It does not follow, because one 13 pare-
- Piment, that all there are incompetent. 8 . At the time I refer to, it was not
zazy for her, considering the Office I held, to gainsay the assertion without seeming to be hostile ; and as I was catsford
That, after a
for a tince, it would not be
receurd here in the
the full pense.
all pense in which
it was convryed, I considered it prudent to be sebut - I ought perhaps to have_
curelances
remnubered that, where local circums
were not known, the statement would. be taken as
quial. 9. From the
Expenrice
ce I had in
the