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Philip Winnes of the Basel Mission worked in Kwangtung

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"Ernest John Eitel, PhD), (1838-1908) was with the Basel Mission. He worked in South China during 1862-65. Eitel was a scholar and linguist who settled in Hong Kong in 1870, where he was Private Secretary to the Governor and later Inspector of Schools. He migrated to Australia after his retirement in 1897. His book Europe in China, first published in 1895 and reprinted in 1983, is an important history of Hong Kong during the years 1841-82

12 Major AG Harfield has written to say that upon completion of a tour of nine years in India, an officer was obliged to take a leave outside India. China apparently was a popular destination Major Harfield also writes. “The favourite sport of officers serving with the Indian army was to go on tiger hunts. As we are thinking of the mid-19th century such a wound would not have resulted in an officer having to leave the service

This last paragraph appears to be a non sequitur. It is integral to the manuscript and neatly fills up the last page of the manuscript. It refers to the German missionary community at Lilong. Perhaps Fryer omitted something relevant earlier in the narration during transcription from his notes

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Philip Winnes of the Basel Mission worked in Kwangtung 145 "Ernest John Eitel, PhD), (1838-1908) was with the Basel Mission. He worked in South China during 1862-65. Eitel was a scholar and linguist who settled in Hong Kong in 1870, where he was Private Secretary to the Governor and later Inspector of Schools. He migrated to Australia after his retirement in 1897. His book Europe in China, first published in 1895 and reprinted in 1983, is an important history of Hong Kong during the years 1841-82 12 Major AG Harfield has written to say that upon completion of a tour of nine years in India, an officer was obliged to take a leave outside India. China apparently was a popular destination Major Harfield also writes. “The favourite sport of officers serving with the Indian army was to go on tiger hunts. As we are thinking of the mid-19th century such a wound would not have resulted in an officer having to leave the service | This last paragraph appears to be a non sequitur. It is integral to the manuscript and neatly fills up the last page of the manuscript. It refers to the German missionary community at Lilong. Perhaps Fryer omitted something relevant earlier in the narration during transcription from his notes 11 Possibly "ornament ++ ¦

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ות Philip Winnes of the Basel Mission worked in Kwangtung 145 "Ernest John Eitel, PhD), (1838-1908) was with the Basel Mission. He worked in South China during 1862-65. Jutel was a scholar and linguist who settled in Hong Kong in 1870, where he was Private Secretary to the Governor and later Inspector of Schools. He migrated to Australia after his retnement in 1897. His book Europe in China, first published in 1895 and reprinted in 1983, is an important history of Hong Kong during the years 1841- 82 12 Major AG Harfield has written to say that upon completion of a tour of nine years in India, an officer was obliged to take a leave outside India. China apparently was a popula destination Major Harfield also writes. “The favourne sport of officers serving with the Indian army was to go on tiger hunts. As we are thinking of the mid-19th century such a wound would not have resulted in an officer having to leave the service | This last paragraph appears to be a non sequitur. It is integral to the manuscript and neatly fills up the last page of the manuscript. It refers to the German missionary community at Lilong Perhaps Fryer ommitted something relevant earlier in the narration during Uanscription from his notes 11 Possibly "orament | ++ ¦

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Philip Winnes of the Basel Mission worked in Kwangtung

145

"Ernest John Eitel, PhD), (1838-1908) was with the Basel Mission. He worked in South China during 1862-65. Jutel was a scholar and linguist who settled in Hong Kong in 1870, where he was Private Secretary to the Governor and later Inspector of Schools. He migrated to Australia after his retnement in 1897. His book Europe in China, first published in 1895 and reprinted in 1983, is an important history of Hong Kong during the years 1841- 82

12 Major AG Harfield has written to say that upon completion of a tour of nine years in India, an officer was obliged to take a leave outside India. China apparently was a popula destination Major Harfield also writes. “The favourne sport of officers serving with the Indian army was to go on tiger hunts. As we are thinking of the mid-19th century such a wound would not have resulted in an officer having to leave the service

This last paragraph appears to be a non sequitur. It is integral to the manuscript and neatly fills up the last page of the manuscript. It refers to the German missionary community at Lilong Perhaps Fryer ommitted something relevant earlier in the narration during Uanscription from his notes

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