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and museum, have given you satisfaction. It is the certainty 
that my friends in Europe will appreciate my labours that enables 
me to bear up under the hardships of travel in this region. I 
have no doubt that a stronger man than I might do more, but 
even the strongest must be content to lose a great deal of time 
among a people so lethargic as this, as Mr. Wallace can better 
inform you. As to my health, about which you so kindly inquire, 
it is much what it was in England, easily disordered, but (with 
care) rarely seriously affected. I suppose I am so thoroughly 
acclimated to the tropics that I shall take ill to a cold climate 
again. 
