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Question No11.412

Cost of clothing, arms, accoutrements and Barrack accommodation, leut includes the

Way Mensions

of officios rien permanent and

wear Heas of clothing and

otherwise, food,

Arius-

office expenses, stationary le tes

am

decidedly of opinion, of that the fluiere that could be recruited in Haughong would make excellent soldiers disciplined and properly lead would be inferior to no soldiers in the Majesty's fighting force.

and once.

service, as a

In patience, strength scudurance I consider steur duperior to any

native troops. They

are intelligent and ready to turn their hand to anything

I consider them the most docile and easily governed people in the world. Jassuund.

cause that they are peasonally

of

Justly governed.

в

Aay

well and

this after twenty years expercicer

in Elena pecially

affect my experience during the last war, through which I acred in the Commisarning

wy

department, having constantly under orders a couple of hundred chimere enlisted

here as Cookies.

хо

With my knowledge

what served

oblamied from officers who had perced with them, of the performances of

Gordonis

Chimère Force about Shanghai in 1861-2-3.

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day emphatically the Cluvere

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and

will

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