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Captains in the Navy.

101.

One great drawback to the effective working of the Force is the practice of dividing, and Keeping dements of which the Porces is

103.

The total number of

ranks and classes is thus shewn

to be 51, which is nearly four times

as

large

00

that

as it were

apart, the different

composed instead of blanding them togethi Reference to the

102.

appendis

marted & in appending & will

: show that one of the results of this

system is that

every

nationality

is represented by ito own Officers,

and that in order)

carry

this

as it were to

objectionable practice to

its extreme limits distinctions are

made between the Chinese land

Force and

the Water Porce

at the

existing Mauritius, with a much larger

Force and quite as

• great a medley

No distinction whatever

as to nationalities.

1014.

was mode in the Mauritius of

the

Gorce

varicus clements of which the

AV AG

composed, either

parat

or on duty; each individual being considered as one policeman incepective of his nationality, and the only division allowable

was

that Barrack accommodation was

divided into two classes only.