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through my course of children’s diseases I was taken to England, and there | 
spent some of the happiest days of my childhood. 
When a child I saw the great Duke of Wellington riding through the Park 
in London, and I remember the day of his great funeral. When Queen Victoria 
went to open Parliament I saw her in the StateCoach. The late King, then a 
boy of ten, stood by his mother’s side. I saw the Great Exhibition of 1851. 
In 1848 I saw, in the Thames, a Chinese junk. which had sailed to London from 
China. This vessel excited considerable attention in London. Charles Dickens 
wrote an account of it at the time. | remember when the Princess Royal was 
married. At the time people thought her a very young bride, but very early 
marriages became more fashionable after this marriage. I remember when the 
Tsle of Wight had no pathway running through it, and when Ventnor was a 
pretty little village. 
After returning to the colony in 1855, I entered Queen’s College. Dalton, 
who became afterwards Registrar General of Births and Deaths, and Registrar 
of the Supreme Court, was there, but he left at the time when I joined. Rev. 
George Fox was the Principal of the school, and I owe him a deep debt of 
gratitude. He helped me in studying for the Colonial Scholarship which 1 
obtained. Another of my schoolmates was John Fox, whv became Rey. John 
Fox, and succeeded his father as Incumbent of Christ Church. Dr. Conyers 
was another of my schoolmates. Conyers entered the Army and became 
Surgeon Lieut.-Colonel. He died here, and I attended his funeral. Others of 
my schoolfellows were McTurk who became afterwards a C.M.G. He is a 
grand old bushman and a man to whom a cataract is practically little more 
than a brook, Thomas who became manager of the B.G. Bank, Ledoux 
who became French Consul, Burrowes, the veteran ex-Commissary, John and 
George Bagot, and the Pearces. McFarlane wasa black lad, and became the 
Rey. McFarlane. 
While I was a boy at Queen’s College in 1856 riots occurred in Georgetown. 
A man named John Orr was responsible for the outbreak, and paid the penalty 
of his crime in H.M. Penal Settlement where he died. 
During these riots there was a great deal of religious animosity in Georgetown 
and offensive doggerels were sung in the streets. I was in Georgetown later 
on in 1889 and 1905 during the riots of these years. 
In 18561 was attacked with yellow fever. I recovered under the care of Dr. 
Houston. My sister, who was attended by Dr. Dalton, died shortly before 
I was attacked. 
In 1857 cholera appeared in Georgetown. [had a great dread of this disease. 
The Rev. Thos. Henderson, a London Missionary clergyman, showed great 
kindness to the people at Beterverwagting. Mr. Henderson was somewhat 
eccentric as well as kind. On one occasion when holding a service in his church, 
the collection-plate was handed to him after it had gone the round of the congre- 
gation. Seeing the preponderance of copper coins in the plate Mr. Henderson 
upset the plate and while the coins rattled along the floor he indignantly 
