Original sentence: A fierce cholera epidemic killed most of the inhabitants and he almost died too, but he was able to return to Portugal after two years.Anchieta was born in 1832, in Lisbon, and started his studies in Mathematics at the University of Coimbra.Following what he thought was his vocation, he studied Medicine in Lisbon, London and Paris, but could not complete the course, and returned to Africa again, this time to Angola, one of the largest West African Portuguese colonies.He spent his time studying the local flora and fauna in the island of Santo Antão, and finally ended up helping out the local inhabitants as an amateur physician (he had studied some Medicine for himself).He was very successful as an explorer of the hinterland and as a naturalist, and after studying and collecting many new animal and plant species, he returned to Portugal and donated the remains of is collections to the natural museum of the Polytechnic School (unfortunately most of it had been lost when his canoe foundered in a river)
Edited sentence: A cholera epidemic killed most of the inhabitants and he almost died too, but he was able to return to Portugal after two years.Anchieta was born in 1832, in Lisbon, and started his studies in mathematics at the University of Coimbra.Following what he thought was his vocation, he studied medicine in Lisbon, London and Paris, but could not complete the course, and returned to Africa again, this time to Angola, one of the largest West African Portuguese colonies.He spent his time studying the local flora and fauna in the island of Santo Antão, and finally ended up helping the local inhabitants as an amateur physician (he had studied some medicine).He was successful as an explorer of the hinterland and as a naturalist, and after studying and collecting many new animal and plant species, he returned to Portugal.Unfortunately most of his collections had been lost when his canoe foundered in a river, but he donated what remained to the natural history museum of the Polytechnic School