care

and superintende

it was deemed.

her to the care

varies.

and

safe to entrust.

care of strangers

Owing to the warlike

aspect of affairs and the total cessation of Foreign Trade

in the Canton district, I was

unable to procure

a

passage

in

a ship sailing direct for England,

England,

seven

399

months of my leave had expired.

Since

rival in this

country the severity of the weather

1 to us who have lived so

many years in intertropical climates)

has prevented me

from following out the instructions of my

medical advisers;

object for which I obtained

211.e consequently, the

and the Medical men

against the

being too exciting,

my

advising

leave has not been so

fully

the Overland route us

attained as it would be

by

was

WIL

having the

ship

advantage of the

Summer months in England;

strained to proceed in a

to Forchow, which involved

a

delay of six weeks in waiting for

a

cargo

besides carrying

a

thousand miles out of my way;

so that, by the time

we reached

England

and

the long

Lea voyage

recommended in preference

the Overland route,

obtain the extension of leave I

F2020

earnestly solicit, I shall be

obliged to…

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