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April 22nd. — Heavy snowstorm. 



April 27th.— Mr. Hamilton Gray was buried in 

 the crypt at Glasgow Cathedral. He had been in- 

 terested in it, and had put up two memorial windows 

 there. 



I did not hunt again this season, and went to 

 Charleton. 



17th September, 1867.— My wife and I, Kit, Jack 

 and Charlie, with Elise, the French maid, started from 

 Brigstock for the Paris Exhibition. We got to Folke- 

 stone on the 1 8th. It was blowing very hard. On 

 going on board the steamer the steward said, "Will 

 you have a waterproof?" I saw that all the other 

 passengers had them, and when we started with a 

 head wind the boat just dived through the first 

 wave, about three or four feet of water rushing 

 along the deck. The rest of the passengers had 

 gone below except Admiral George Try on, who 

 was going to Egypt in charge of transport. (He 

 was drowned a few years ago in the terrible Victoria 

 disaster.) He and his secretary and Charlie and I, 

 who remained on deck, were the only ones who were 

 not sick ! 



When we landed at Boulogne all the children 

 were wet through, and as we had cleverly plombeed 

 all our luggage to Paris, we could not get any dry 

 clothes. So we had to put them all to bed while their 

 things were drying. 



Next morning we went on to Paris to the 

 Clarendon Hotel, and changed from there to the 

 Hotel Mirabeau. We went to the Exhibition every 



