(Copy)
366
7408754
Hong Kong August 17.1854
It is perfectly
true that from
a series of losses and midfortunes over which COD alone could have control, and from
which-Box Come
sickness in
world sent I has been involved in fcom -
paratively) heavy embarrassmento.
trials which caused them, spread over a
period of six years, began to cease
about the.
in
In or
embarrast.
to lesson.
year 1847 - and m
my ments began also gradually
to But again in March 1851. the life of my only surviving son ( the last of five) was so far endangered that his medical at- tendant declared that there was no hope for him stive by an immediate and perma. nent removal into pure country air. This change of situration for myself
rendered a
and a
Pa
change of place for my family indispensable duty
but it also unhappity
entailed with it the necessity of a slower liquidation of my
debt.
Still even with
my-grantly redisced income. I continued gradually to discharge my varions engage.
Founder that the process of pay. was so slow, and harassed
monty.
ing off
the con
Conscious.
ciousnes o
debts I resolved al