Earl of Abergavenny East Indiaman/voyage

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    Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    An inexperienced heraldist resembles a medieval traveler who brings back from the East the faunal fantasies influenced by the domestic bestiary he possessed all along rather than by the results of direct zoological exploration.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    He makes his voyage too late, perhaps, by a true water clock who delays too long.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)