all work except to two Judgment's already concluded Fortunately Mr. Ball according to the provisions of the Ordinance can prevent any injury to the public service .. was so last Winter proper for unwell during as to render it to ask for sick leave, but I did not. In August last June was very ill. I thought however that Mr. Pauncefote was dangerously so from an experience I had had in a relative dying from an alike attack; and in the belief that the urgency of his gaining strength by going home is greater than mine, I abstained from asking leave hoping that I could remain till he should return.
The long Voyages I took during last vacation have not had the salutary effect I had hoped for and a complaint has returned from which at intervals I have suffered since I was 19 years of age and which being then immediately dangerous sent me home in 1865.
After struggling with the illness for a long time, Dr Dods...