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so many perils were unstrung ; the unerring eye which 

 had never missed its aim was growing dim. He never 

 really enjoyed a day's good health after his return 

 from Abyssinia. The bullet in his jaw-bone perpetually 

 worried and troubled him ; the wound was for ever 

 breaking out afresh, the constant haemorrhage weakened 

 him, and he suffered terribly from insomnia. All 

 through the year 1875 it was plain to those who saw 

 him that he was gradually sinking, and when at length, 

 on July 1 8th, he drew his last breath at Brighton, his 

 friends were glad that the prolonged and hopeless 

 agony, so bravely borne, was over. He was only forty- 

 seven when he died, but few men have crowded into 

 that short space so much soldiering, sport, and ad- 

 venture as had fallen to the lot of "the Old 

 Shekarry." 



