MEMOIR. 1xxxix 
Heavy grief—which he bore in silence, but not without deeper 
scoring of his rugged features—befel him in the death of his eldest 
child, Alice, in 1891, after a brief married life; the gastric derange- 
ment which had troubled him since boyhood took an aggravated 
form in the autumn of that year, and he gradually became thinner 
and weaker. But he had grown so accustomed to the daily battle 
between flesh and spirit, that he paid too little heed to symptoms 
which his friends looked upon as serious, and he could not be per- 
suaded to take proffered rest and change. In the beginning of 
February 1892 an acute attack of influenza, complicated with 
bronchitis, supervened, and to this he succumbed on the morning 
of Tuesday, the sixteenth of that month. 
Rarely does a man pass away so widely loved and mourned. 
The genuine sorrow at his death found expression in the tribute 
paid to his memory, not only by his colleagues of the Geographical 
Society, but in the letters of sympathy which his widow and children 
received from every quarter; from the veteran companion of his 
travels to the youngest member of that band of explorers to whom 
he, Nestor among them, had been “ guide, philosopher, and friend.” 
