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6.

7. If it had been possible to matte that most complete change at once

which

may wit

I hope be ultimately

adopted, I would have auggested to You Lordship the substitution of 400

naica or Barbadoes

Black Creoles from Jamaica for the Tischs, East Indians and even

Europeans,

but

sering?

that which

save m

Mo

respect

to Officers;

possibility of obtaining

Avas

and knowing

wvas

in my opinor esential,

well that

my

time?

limited, I did not choose to

waste it in regrets, but sit about

such improvements practicable.

as

rvere

seemingly

8. Thus, when I found the Central Barractts and out-stations in land)

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and afloat not only untidy but fility, and mucholesome in the extreme, I sought to introduce order, deanliness and improved serverage -; detected the entire absence of system

where I

and discipline, I endeavored to establish it; where I found the stations

and

-guards supplied from the men of each different class who could

neither communicate with

I made it.

my

bremes

another,

one an

to require

greater miformity-; where the

supplied to the stations

were

ammo

all

of different pattern requiring different

ition, I also required miformity

amumaat

where the

amm

were

generally renty.

eum

and often unfit for service