Having scored in the West End for the last five and a half years without a break, I now feel that leaving my post, I should inquire a little before proceeding to Hongkong. Both Robinson and I have really thought that if we were to proceed at once to low country, there I should in the hottest & unhealthiest part of the year, be likely to buckle down in the commencement of monsoon and have to undergo such a change of climate in the neighbouring settlements.
If on the other hand the copies had have attacks of fever.