“Is not man born with a love of change”

an Englishman to be discontented — an Anglo-Indian to grumble?
Goa, and The Blue Mountains; or, Six Months of Sick Leave (1851)

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British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, … 1821–1890

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