90 Three Months' Leave in Somali Land. 



Here the diaries end abruptly and no further 

 particulars are given of the return to Aden. Doubt- 

 less Captain Francis's shooting came to end at 

 this point and the diaries were only written to 

 recount the actual sport. 



Extract from an Indian Newspaper, in May, 



1894. 



" The death of Captain John Cyril Francis, of 

 the 5th Bombay Infantry, who fell a victim to 

 cholera, at Deolali on the 4th of May, at thirty- 

 eight years of age, will be sincerely mourned by a 

 very large number of people on the Bombay side. 



" A smart officer, a keen sportsman and a kind- 

 hearted, genial, courteous gentleman, poor " Jack 

 Francis " was popular wherever he went. He was 

 beloved by all ranks in his regiment, and every 

 officer who enjoyed the privilege of being one of 

 his pupils at the Deolali Musketry Class, can bear 

 testimony to the zeal and tact with which he dis- 

 charged the somewhat trying duties of an in- 

 structor at that institution. For the last two 

 years Captain Francis had held the appointment 



