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their superior officers, they were able to withstand the influence of the climate whilst they have life to provide for the contingency of illness when it does overtake them. Consequently their only alternative is hardship on resignation, a very great hardship like that of a man who has done his duty and is reluctant to leave the service. Appeals to the generosity of their friends and colleagues to enable them to do that which experience has proved to be an absolute necessity for the due preservation of health, must be regarded as a very exceptional measure.
These observations apply equally to those occasions when an Officer is recommended by the Colonial Surgeon for three months' cessation of work coupled with a trip to some place having a climate like Japan.
9. It is this state of affairs which undoubtedly prevents young Englishmen from joining the service, especially when the prospects held out to them by the Merchants are great, and those in the employment of the latter are invariably provided, free of expense, with passages to...