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bearance as well. If any value attaches to
the views we are here placing on record it is
because without exception these gentlemen
showed the greatest readiness to discuss
the subject with us, and to give us the full
benefit of their wisdom and experience.
We have quoted freely in the following
pages from government pamphlets, newspapers,
 etc. Except where otherwise stated
the extracts are from government pamphlets.
It will probably be cast at us as a reproach
that we stayed too short a time in the country
to really learn anything at all. But we were
concerned with the study of a single, though
complicated problem, and if a man will work
hard and avail himself of the best sources
of information, he is more fitted to report
on the opinion of a country on the particular
 question he is studying, after a visit
paid for that purpose, than is the inhabitant
of the country who has never exclusively
devoted himself to research in this direction.
We desire here to express our gratitude
for the kindly encouragement and great
sympathy we have received from Lord
Rosebery.