IN SEARCH OF HEALTH. BY LORD ALBERT DENISON, K.C.H., F.S.A. LONDON. PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. M.DCCC. XLIX. WANDERINGS IN D974 SEARCH OF HEALTH. CHAPTER I. AFTER Six weeks' confinement to a sick room, the state of my chest causing me to experience the sensations of a fish taken out of water and gasping in another element, my medical advisers determined that I was sufficiently recovered to leave England for a winter in a warm climate; and on Wednesday, the 15th day of November 1848, I made my way to Southampton, and embarked on board the Tagus, a steamer belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, commanded by Captain Joy. My impedimenta consisted of a wife, a plump and rather pretty English maid, and an English valet, the said valet being an exception to the 681 B |