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change of climate, and I had no resource 

 but to decide upon the latter. 



As mine was considered by the learned 

 ones a very grave case, no time was lost, 

 and a medical board assembled. They 

 merely put a few words to me, and then I 

 was told that I had passed the board, two 

 years sick certificate being granted me to 

 go to England. The president, in the 

 kindest manner, earnestly urged upon me 

 the necessity of making an early start of it, 

 in which, he said, all the members of the 

 Board concurred; and, after they had 

 wished me a safe passage and restored 

 health, I left them, I must own, greatly 

 depressed at the unpalatable mandate. 

 Taking leave of my brother officers sent 

 my spirits below zero, and when I started 

 that same evening for Calcutta, I felt much 

 more miserable than ever I did, in the 



