286 REMINISCENCES OF SONEPORE. 



Throughout the length and breadth of Sarun no one could be 

 more mourned and missed than poor Sammy. He had all the 

 qualities that go to make a good planter, enthusiastic, in- 

 telligent and hard-working, with heaps of tact and honest as 

 the day, he was one of the most promising of our young 

 Managers, and under his able conduct Cheyton Pursah had 

 grown into a very paying concern. But besides the loss that 

 he is to our community as a planter and ourselves as a very 

 dear friend, Behar will miss in him at a time when it can ill 

 spare such, a keen and absolutely straight sportsman. A 

 good rider and careful trainer, he always had something smart 

 enough to carry his popular colors to victory, and for several 

 years he has been one of the moving spirits at Sonepore, 

 always ready to assist and back up the Stewards, and his 

 unfailing good humour and willingness to sing and join 

 in anything to promote sport and conviviality, made him 

 a prime favorite at all social gatherings. He had this 

 year been elected a Steward for the Sonepore Meeting. 

 To know Sammy was enough to make one both like and 

 respect him. Cut off in the very flower of his youth, and 

 at the comparative commencement of a most promising 

 career, his memory will long be green with us. Our 

 sincerest sympathies are with his sister, who nursed him 

 so tenderly throughout his illness." 



The death of Mr. Archie Hills of Patkabari, king of 

 Lower Bengal indigo planters and pigstickers, was also chron- 

 icled during this month, and though he had not often visited 

 Sonepore, yet he was well known and liked in Behar. 



So staunch a supporter of Sonepore as Jimmy well de- 

 serves that his biography should be added to these pages. 



Mr. Jimmy Macleod, the well-known sportsman and 

 Managing Proprietor of the Lallseryah Indigo concern in 

 Chumparun, is a descendant of an old Highland family, the 

 Macleods of Raasay. Raasay, which is a beautiful Island 



