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