Topical Regions of the theme that with common
during has down
be often avoided altogether,
the months of Heat and Rain.
yet, experience
Whose diseases may be that they are seldom fatal throughout the Ber...
Can
...mae
prudence?
and
even in those months; whilst nine months of the year, nothing delightful or salubrious than the clemency!
Remaining
Bus Excellency
depend
that the opulent
Batch, and other Merchants of Macao, as well as
Merchants
as
settlers from Judia, who are already flocking
and
the Island to reside, are and likely to commit themselves by such a step had they any apprehension of its being less healthy than the places at which they have hitherto resided, and where they have capital dealings, with every comfort about them. This test alone would satisfy one, especially where my own personal experience and information so strongly corroborate it, and with
respect to the troops, I am pained to say I consider them to form no criterion whatever.
It is not my province to touch on such a subject, but I know that the troops are not only
allowed to go about at all hours without regard to heat or cold, but that the Europeans in particular have been permitted to bathe for hours together at meridian sun, so that I would ask Your Excellency
if it
is
to be
wondered at that men
under
get sick and
die under such licence, to say nothing of their exposure to the pernicious spirit of the Country, the use and introduction of which into the Island, it is perfectly hopeless to attempt to prevent.
H.
The late Commanding Officer, Major General ..., lived for above four months on board the Moira, Transport, at an enormous expense to the Government, and I hear the Officer who has succeeded
him has followed this bad example, affecting separation, as he must be from those whom it is his first duty to watch over and instruct in the best means of preserving
his health
by
living
...
Your
Their
I am sure Your Excellency will not imagine for a moment that I
am cutting this latter
by
waking
my only ... before with your authority. I feel morally to be
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