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rather slow. Kisansing Dowlatsing has conducted the duties of head clerk to my entire
satisfaction.

Regarding the number of peons belonging to the Office Establishment, I gladly endorse
Mr. Cody's recommendation in the closing sentence of his last year's report, and for precisely
the same reasons he has given for making the recommendation.

26. In conclusion, I venture to express my humble appreciation of Dr. Wright's re-
marks in paras. 13 and 14 of his letter submitting the report of last year to Government,
Para. 14 especially carries weight with it. To be able to deal personally with village
authorities and others concerned, in the course of village inspections, Superintendents ought
to be at least colloquially acquainted with the vernaculars of their Circles. Interpretation is
all very well in its way—-and the kárkuns have in this respect done their best for me on all oc-
casions where necessary ; but, unless the interpreter is thoroughly conversant with our rather
complex English idiom, the precise meaning to be conveyed is sure to be lost. Such, I have
reason to think, is not seldom the case in dictating vernacular correspondence. I speak from
my own experience, which, on inspection occasions chiefly, has been sometimes painfully
irksome and unsatisfactory, because of my ignorance of the Maráthí language.

                                                                        Camp Násik, 16th May 1873.

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