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fires annually, it perhaps would be impossible to catch the men who are the parties doing the damage, as it is well known who they are. But if they were properly warned as to the consequences and severe punishments inflicted for removing the charred or burnt bushwood, the evil would be arrested in its inception; the salubrity of the Island consequent upon the steady increase of vegetation would be materially improved and the temperature considerably reduced.
In the early part of the Summer, my health suffered very materially from a most peculiar austive fever which continued to confine me to the house for upwards of a month. I attribute this, the only severe sickness I have had during my residence in Hong Kong, to carelessness in exposing myself to the Sun notwithstanding my experience of its dangers.
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I respectfully say that the succeeding Summer produces its ill effects upon my constitution, for during my service of nearly twelve years in this climate, I have never had leave to England, and but once for a period of six weeks to Shanghai, and thus it is perhaps surprising that I should have had such...
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