2.

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the

the sedentary life.

to lead in

hot months.

one is necessitated

this Colony during

250

3.

six years, during

which

period

I

trust I have faithfully performed

my duties,

never

having been

Having experienced

that

my

mere

recent

attacks have been

attended with Expraptons. Of

occasional

an

in

the

aggravatio

nature

I fear that I

shall be unable, un

unless

less with great

detriment to

encounter

тур another

health, to

absent therefrom beyond

day aggregate

on two

than twenty five

/

an

not more

bering

His Excellency may perhaps

remember that I was

unwell during

Summer without

enjoying change of air and scene, deprived of which, I feel convinced

that I shall be unfitted to

attend regularly

to

my

Juties

and compelled at length to leave, the Soland, when my

disease

more

Serve

may

have assumed

alarming aspect

I have had the honor to

under Her

Majesty's

Government of Hongkong for

Civil

near

lash two

very

а

portion off

the

summers - That in 1848

I had resolved to apply for

leave of absence, and with that obtained the Colonial

view

surgeon's Medical Certificate, which I

for

now

вед

to forward

perusal, as well as that of my present medical Alandant Dr Balfour..

Being fully sensible

that the appointment of my

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