A RUNIC MEMORIAL 



iS Lay down at 7 p.m. for I will not hamper the movements 

 of my comrades on which hangs their salvation." 



Thus died Wulff, sacrificing himself for the results from 

 which he had expected so much. Often during the latter part 

 of the journey he had maintained that the collections which we 

 had brought with us under all adversities had gradually become 

 so dearly-bought that now they must be considered even before 

 our own welfare. Therefore, at the critical moment, he made 

 his dispositions with stoic calm and took his departure from the 

 people nearest to his heart. His letter to his young daughter 

 was a last caress of a father, marked by death, to the one who 

 in life he had set above everything. Words at once proud and 

 tender, which ought not to be reproduced here. But his filial 

 greeting from the threshold of death to his old parents, who 

 would in vain await his return, we reproduce with their per- 

 mission as the most beautiful memorial that can be erected over 

 a dying man : 



" With stiff frozen fingers, merely a final greeting before I, 

 exhausted with the adversities of the journey, lie down to rest. 

 I await death with a perfectly calm mind and in my heart is 

 peace. Up to the last I have honestly striven to honour our 

 name and hope that the result of my work may be saved. 

 Thank you for all the good you have bestowed upon me, as a 

 gift for the wanderings of mv life, ever since my earliest 

 childhood." 



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