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certain extent select the lower ones, or even those inhabi- 

 tants, such as the pariahs, &c., who have no caste at all. Let 

 every regiment possess its full complement of officers, and let 

 them do their duty, and let a certain knowledge of the 

 native languages be an indispensable condition to promotion 

 and preferment. 



J. D. 



