But the perils of the deep were a part of the programme; and though I am very glad to be done with them for a while . . . I feel sure I shall want to get to sea again ere long . . . I have got health to a wonderful extent . . . I never knew the world was so amusing.
Robert Louis Stevenson , February 19, 1889, in The Times of London, February 19, 2003.additional Stevenson:
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