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-matters of business have to be

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discussed with the Chinese. Officials

in the neighbourhood, and it would

seem, on this account also, important

that the Governor should not be

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"dependent on any one outside the

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"service to interpret for him. The plan Your Excellency proposes of Lending đưa of the trong hồng

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Cadets to Veking to learn Mandarin

in connection with the Consular

" Student- Interpreters, and under

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the Superintendence of the Chinese

Secretary of Legation,

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most admirable one.

It would

secure good guidance for young

men

in their first studies of Chinese, and

"other advantages besides."

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(2) In eighteen months a young-

"man of good ability for requiring a

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language and diligence, could lay

a good foundation both in the Book

language and in Mandarin; and

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if he brought a Teacher with him

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returning to Hong Kong, he could by a couple of hours study daily

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up

and increase his Mandarin.

"In eighteen months more,

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he

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