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worse, and towards nightfall on the second day 

 he succumbed. He was not in good health, as 

 an attack of malarial fever which he got after 

 an unsuccessful hunt for bison in the Christmas 

 week of 1907-8 in the Jagar Valley, in the Mysore 

 State, had shaken him considerably, and he 

 apparently died from heart failure owing to the 

 shock. 



He had some premonition of his death, and my 

 cook, with whom he was on friendly terms, 

 informed me that he had told him, some time 

 before the accident occurred, that he did not 

 expect to survive the season's tour, and had 

 asked that he might be buried either by the 

 side of the road or the railway. 



The only meaning that I can assign to this 

 singular testament is that he hoped that his 

 soul, like John Brown's, would go marching on. 

 Poor Mihtab Khan ! He took much pride in 

 our wanderings. On one occasion, when I was 

 marching rapidly through the Kohat Salt dis- 

 trict, he said that the Pathans had inquired if 

 the Sahib never made a halt, and that he had 

 replied that we marched every day and never 

 halted ! This was an exaggeration, but I certainly 

 did march very rapidly when I was on inspection 

 tours, and halted very seldom. The time saved 

 in this way could be devoted unobjectionably in 

 shikar. 



The Muhammadans of Baihar turned out and 

 buried Mihtab Khan's body with fitting ceremony, 

 and he lies, according to his wish, by the side 

 of the road from Baihur to Balaghat with an 

 inscribed tombstone at the head of his grave. 



