text:  He wrote to me in the letter to which I have above adverted--the first I received from him after his departure from England--in the most glowing terms respecting them; and conjured me by the love I bore our glorious profession--by my ardent aspirations after fame and by the strong desire which he believed I entertained with himself and the majority of men to serve and benefit my fellow-creatures--not to waste my precious hours in England but to join him instantly "in the finest field of _operations_ that the world presented