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voluntarily explained to me a day

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paragraph 10 of 1189 Almades

Inemorial - Being myself perfectly aware of this fact at the time, I

my duty as the Offic

decred it

Officer in temporary charge of the Secretariat

to take notice of it, and I therefore told W. Almade of the impropricty

if

his conduct, and

of my intention

to report it to yourself

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your

return.

Subrequently, on the came

:afternoon, I was in the Surveys

Generals

whither came Mr. office, Almada, and addressed me with many apologies and insineus explanations. _ I accured him that

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what ther

he terms

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I could not cuter into the discussion

with him, but,

as he persisted,

I administered a severe rebuse,

implemed? temperate I trust, and well-

merited. I know

Mr Almada's report, made nine months afterward, of the style of this rebuke is characteristically

distorted - Assumption could not

exict on my part in our respective

positions, and as

manner

for grove incult and ungentlemanlike I must really repudiate there

terms now

first

applied to me

e for

the

time in my life, and I think that no great Knowledge mankind is required to see

of

that

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