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ting excitement, of sunlight and air, vast spaces and 

 solitude, of all things which seem to me to be so far 

 removed from the restricting influences of a complex 

 civilization. After so many years of a wild, free life 

 I find it difficult to accommodate myself to the stuffi- 

 ness and constraint of a modern city : I prefer the 

 pori (forest) to the imprisonment of streets, the 

 twinkling stars to lamps, the sigh of the primeval 

 forest to the tramp of thousands of human feet. 

 After all, this may be the idiosyncrasy of one 

 who has been so long away from civilization that 

 he has lost taste for much that appertains to that 

 civilization, and in this world, well, chacun a son 

 gout. 



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