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the Chinese youths of the Colony
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4.
on refersing
to
a
former visit to
the central School I said: _
"I visited
me
large clap-room,
indeed
cort of double clap-room, on the other side
of that rafpage. In that son I should
"think there must have been a hundred
and
fifty
chinese youths who were instructed by three chinese teachers
"They
found
were
{
being
reading Chinese clapies. I
that the three chinese teachers
wao were instructing them in the _ "Chinese capics had themselves
"Knowledge whatever of the English language. "Thethree chinese teachers
spoke in English,
and of the pupilo in that particular
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"Mak-room
soom not one could speak English. "These surils, I was glad to see, were reading
the Chinese clapics. During the whole
have had Six Hundred
"I the
year
we
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and ten pupils attending the School. I
li
morning
how
asked M. Stewart this
marry of there
were able to speak
"English, and he said under fitly
sixty, and this small number imperfectly. Now there
are
very
grave facts.
"They point to that which M. Stewart "wishes _ to the desirability of our
enverrousing to Keep the pupils a "little longer in the school. In this "English Colony
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we must not be
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"entisfied with to out
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