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476
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Your Lordship's time by explaining at length my. reasons for
this view, I may mention (as throwing light on other opinions expressed in this despatch) that its principal ground is the unsatisfactory nature of the evidence
of all Chinese witnesses. Owing partly timidity, partly to want of appreciation of the value of accuracy in statement, and - partly to difficulties of
to
interpretation
interpretation, the evidence given by an eye-witness of the
even
circumstances which he
relates, and intending his relation to be truthful, is, I understand, rarely, if ever, without discrepancies which would preclude it from being the sole basis of a primâ -
froie
case; and yet it may
be recognisable
as almost-
certainly truthful
Facts by any
main
Common sense.
as to the
one
of
sense who appreciates
・the
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