Pexive, 2nd August, 1881.
Sm,—I hasten to acknowledge your Excellency's reply of Ist inst, to my note of the 23ed July.
It appears to no that I must have failed to make my meaning perfectly clear to your Excellency when we mot at Paung-li Yambu, and that I have equally unsuccessful in the explanation submitted to your Iexcellency in the note to which I have now received your reply.
But I will not take up more of your Excelloucy's time. My chief object in writing to you was that I had not been guilty of mitting my ground ("fan fu") asthe Memorial addressed to the throne in your Excellency's single name, I regretted to observe, had represented.
(Signed) Taowas Francis Wane.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.