gazetteering

Then came the reaction after the year's strain, and Wressley went back to the Foreign Office and his "Wajahs," a compiling, gazetteering, report-writing hack, who would have been dear at three hundred rupees a month.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

Then came the reaction after the year's strain, and Wressley went back to the Foreign Office and his "Wajahs," a compiling, gazetteering, report-writing hack, who would have been dear at three hundred rupees

Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

Neither of them could make poetry coalesce with gazetteering or chronicle-making.

Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855