The Natural History of Game-Birds: Illustrated by Thirty-One Plates, Coloured; With Memoir and Portrait of Sir T. Stamford Raffles (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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This very close application to business and study, however, excited symptoms Of disease in a frame and constitution never very robust, and alarmed his friends for his health. Relaxation was recommend ed, and he employed a short leave of absence, by making a pedestrian excursion through Wales, which. While it gave him renewed strength, gave him also information of the mining districts, which was after wards of advantage to his researches in Java.

It would scarcely have been expected that a young man, placed in so apparently friendless a situation, should have made to himself patrons. A friend had, however, marked him and upon the occurrence of a vacancy in the establishment of the East India House.

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