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rope), were despatched to Cambridge by the first 

 safe opportunity. This present was intended as a 

 mark of his gratitude for the literary benefits and 

 the kind attention which he had received there 

 when preparing himself for his travels. A remem- 

 brance of favours was indeed one of the prominent 

 traits of his noble mind. His liberality and high 

 principle of honour, his detestation of injustice and 

 fraud, his disinterestedness and keen sense of grati- 

 tude, were no less remarkable than his warmth of 

 heart and active benevolence, which he often exer- 

 cised towards persons in distress, to the great preju- 

 dice of his limited means. 



Of this disregard of pecuniary matters, a single 

 example will be sufficient. His father having be- 

 queathed at his death about £ 10,000, to be divided 

 into five equal parts, one to his widow, and one to 

 each of his children, Lewis immediately gave up his 

 portion to increase that of his mother. " If I perish 

 (said he) in my present undertaking, the money 

 will be where it ought to be ; if I return to Eng- 

 land, my employers will undoubtedly find me some 

 means of subsistence." The strong feeling of affec- 

 tion which he cherished towards his relations, and 

 the enthusiasm with which he devoted his life to 

 the advancement of geographical discovery, were 

 strikingly manifested on his death-bed, when he 

 could not mention without hesitation his mother's 

 name, and the failure of the great object of his 

 mission. 



As a traveller, he possessed no common talents 



