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that he should go to the Nile for the winter, and I 

 engaged Dr. Page to go with him. He left London 

 on I St Nov. The weather was not good, and they 

 had a very troublesome and fatiguing journey to 

 Brindisi and not a very good passage. They were 

 joined by Sandbach, whose father had been at Eton 

 with me, and hired a dahabeah — the Zenobia — a 

 very good vessel. He was able to get out shooting, 

 and succeeded in killing a crocodile and made a good 

 collection of birds. 



He left Egypt in April, 1873, and when he got 

 to Rome, Dr. Pantalione wrote to me that I had 

 better come to him, he had lost so much weight. I 

 left home on the 6th May ; left Dover on the 8th, 

 and went to Florence without stopping ; missed him 

 there ; returned to Milan and learned that he had 

 gone to Cadenabbia, and I got to him there on the 

 1 2th, and found him much more ill than I expected. 

 We left Cadenabbia on the 21st May to come home ; 

 got to Calais about the 7th June, but it was so rough 

 that we did not cross for three days. On arriving in 

 London he had an attack of pleurisy. I got a house 

 in Onslow Square, No. 9, and he died there on the 

 4th July. He was buried at Kilconquhar on the 8th 

 July. John Pye came up from Atherstone to London 

 and was a great help to me, and went down to 

 Charleton with us. 



Letter from my mother to my wife : — 



