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in London,' says his biographer, ' he would not ; 

 settle down in a country practice he would not. 

 He vanished into infinite space, and was heard of by 

 occasional letters dated from the Rocky Mountains 

 [where he did shoot a grizzly bear], the Spanish 

 West Indies, Otaheite, Singapore, the Falkland 

 Islands, and all manner of unexpected places.' The 

 novel was published in 1857, but George Kingsley's 

 wanderings, if we except those Continental rambles, 

 were not to commence until five years later. 



