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reliable requaintance with the exoken language.

I am happy to be able Ercent favourably of them both. They have improved much in

mand of the colloquial

their command.

enice I had them last before

ہے

It was

own

my

opinion

on

and that

of a very intelligent Chinese who assisted me in the examination, that they might be unployed to interpret in the Supreme Court. I do not think, indeed, that,

to

they

are

cumployed, they will

if

not be often foxed for a considerable

time to

Come,

and obliged

مادر

refer to their teachers, but they

have arrived at

that

stage

thak

the application of what they know

will be the best

to carry. way

their progress. By ench exercių and the regular earnest prosecutio of their studies, there is no doubt that they may

become in every

respect valuable Servants Government.

I have He

of the

(Signed) James Legge.

(True Cofya)

Menyom

Colonial Secretary

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