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"could attain a fair amount of facility in speaking the Cantonese dialect.
(3.) I would say that Mandarin should be learned first, and Cantonese second. Hinghong is to be the Cadets' permanent post, and Mandarin will only be occasionally needed!"
"(4.) I may add that, roughly speaking, Mandarin is spoken over the whole of the North and West of China, on the borders of the Yangtze-kiang, goes up to the Great Wall on the North and takes in most of the Western Province. I should say that Mandarin is the language of nearly two-thirds of China; while Cantonese is spoken over a very limited extent of Province in the South.
6. It is a point which should not be altogether overlooked that the cost to the Colonial Government of maintaining a Cadet at Canton is considerably larger than the cost at Peking, where by the kindness of Sir Harry Smith Parkes, excellent rooms and other advantages will be supplied gratuitously in the quarters of the Student Interpreter."