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my recect short absence on vacation bave. I request your attention le these doonments; and I fully adwit
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that there is great weight in the __
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contaiu.
Morcover, it is to be remembered that the
Chinese population of this island, like
all other Orientals, is indifferent and
apathetic respecting
matters of this
kind; and that the question practically
rests between, on the one side, a section
of the European Civil con
Comm
Community, --
which the Acting Colonial Secretary.
(Mr Stewart,) estimates at about.
Curlosure 2, three hundred” (300), and, on the other
side, the Noval and Military revideuts
at this Station, who number about or
three thousand (3000).
On my return
from my
vacation leave, I found that there had
been several caves. of sporadic cholera
which had terminated,
aminated fatally
thirtan instances.
anong
in some
the soldiers
the Garrison and the scamssen
of the
A
of the
Squadron. I naturally diet not feel or
myself justified, without positive instructions from you,
to reverser.
three
i. e. without counting
women and children.