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of combining meation here with

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Auswer that He can

have the

leave applied for hist that in muut helps to ir R.M. i his retum to decide as to the precise date for his departure 4 H Ho

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Colonial Secretary's Office,

3rd July, 18.11.

Your Excellency is well aware

that for some time previous to the departure

Sive

of Sir R. G. Mao Dannell, and since

my official avocations have been not

only

DILrOrts

but of a

noiture.

& precluding relovcation by means of Vacation leave -

lso that public business will not opermit me to leave Hang Hong during

the present hot season.

At its close I shall thus have

passed 44 Hot Seasons in China without

His Excellency

Majan General Whitfeild;

Lieutenant Governor,