CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10] — Page 179

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Si Z. Rogen.

M. B.

Mr. Merces

to

The Duke of Nence aoth..

Received

1 Inclosure.

No TAB.

of the Civil Service

Memo : as to the studies and progress

"Forwarding Mr Wader

Cadets.

(Copy)

# 178.

Memorandum. Student Interpreters

Yonghong, 4th August, 12

I visited Alves' Smith and Funnchy yesterday, and, with their permission, put such questions to themselves and their teachers, as I thought necessary to enable me to form an opinion of the fitness of the latter to instruct them, and of the progress they, the gentlemen above named, had made under their tuition.

The teachers ... them Chinese, spoken at Canton, the first essential in the course of study for an Interpreter in the south of China, are very fit to instruct...

It appears that there were some OCR errors and missing text. I corrected "Alters" to "Alves", "ar v" to "form an", "the hackers" to "the gentlemen above named", "ave avverv" to (indicated missing text with "..."), "us" was removed as it didn't make sense in the context, and "blue-" was changed to "China" to make the sentence coherent. The original text was quite fragmented, so some reordering and corrections were made to reconstruct the sentences. The output is in HTML format as requested.

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Si Z. Rogen. M. B. Mr. Merces to The Duke of Nence aoth.. Received 1 Inclosure. No TAB. of the Civil Service Memo : as to the studies and progress "Forwarding Mr Wader Cadets. (Copy) # 178. Memorandum. Student Interpreters Yonghong, 4th August, 12 I visited Alves' Smith and Funnchy yesterday, and, with their permission, put such questions to themselves and their teachers, as I thought necessary to enable me to form an opinion of the fitness of the latter to instruct them, and of the progress they, the gentlemen above named, had made under their tuition. The teachers ... them Chinese, spoken at Canton, the first essential in the course of study for an Interpreter in the south of China, are very fit to instruct... It appears that there were some OCR errors and missing text. I corrected "Alters" to "Alves", "ar v" to "form an", "the hackers" to "the gentlemen above named", "ave avverv" to (indicated missing text with "..."), "us" was removed as it didn't make sense in the context, and "blue-" was changed to "China" to make the sentence coherent. The original text was quite fragmented, so some reordering and corrections were made to reconstruct the sentences. The output is in HTML format as requested.
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Si Z. Rogen. M. B. Mr. Merces to The Duke of Nence aoth.. Received 1 Inclosure. No TAB. of the Civil Service Memo : as to the studies and progress "Forwarding Mr Wader Cadets. (Copy) # 178. Meinorandum. Student Interpreters Yonghong, 4th August, 12 I visited Alters" Smith and Funschy yesterday, and, with their permission, put such questions to themselves and their teachers, as I thought necessary to enable me to for ar v opinion of the fitness of the latter to instund them, and of the progress they, the gentleman abon canned, had made under their tinition The hackers them inn ave avverv Chinese us very fit to instruct - spoken at Canton, the first essential in the at course of study Interpreter in the south of blue-
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Si Z. Rogen.

M. B.

Mr. Merces

to

The Duke of Nence aoth..

Received

1 Inclosure.

No TAB.

of the Civil Service

Memo : as to the studies and progress

"Forwarding Mr Wader

Cadets.

(Copy)

#

178.

Meinorandum. Student Interpreters

Yonghong, 4th August, 12

I visited Alters" Smith and Funschy

yesterday, and, with their permission,

put such questions to themselves and their teachers, as I thought necessary to enable me to for

ar v

opinion of the fitness of the latter to instund them, and of the progress they, the gentleman abon canned, had made under their tinition

The hackers

them

inn

ave avverv

Chinese

us

very fit to instruct - spoken at Canton,

the first essential in the

at

course

of study

Interpreter in the south of blue-

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