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Letter from B. J. Bettelheim.

Letter to Capt. Matheson of H. B. M. brig Mariner.

伯大伯

FEB.

不德人德服也國因則之佛身乏德艮具 諼令電合梁况伯有有間兩素民合材禀 矣一察附成且德該日日客係窮一等琉 切同前搭病敕令國用夜逗國不同為球 翦回情回症國等船之羣遛法能 乞國 國俯國之僻八隻費集以所與國垂中 不垂外憂處致到甚末來禁他以憐山 但憐理兹海淹來苦由官但邦惠恤府 卑恤合除隅留坐窮修民有應小接總 職恩禀懇常則駕阨職人 待邦 感准請多窮其至營等 山益船該業爲

也事

激於伏

是切

H

嵐添長佛上

以照

舉舟

國返

巒窮行客則其 瘴而于有供

國國

官棹

恐國國去原應

人蕞

民之

有不今年餼物

貝爾

亦時

水能七之件

上蜃

土自 月費數

岸疆

祝該

不立際下年棲

If anything is to be wondered at in this dispatch, it is how these astute and crafty Japanese officials can think that Englishmen are so

stupid as to believe such nonsense and act upon it; a cursory perusal would I think, leave this impression upon the mind. But my conclusion is quite different. They are so cunning as to desire to pass for simple- tons, in order thereby to throw us off our guard; they stupidly try to

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