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mother such comfort as he might be able, his friend 
Mr. Gilchrist, in no common spirit of self-sacrifice, 
himself insisted on taking the sad journey alone into 
the interior — to bring down thence and convey to 
England all the deceased's effects ; to hear such 
particulars as he could of his death, for the satis- 
faction of his friends at home ; and if possible — a 
service attended with especial difficulties — to visit 
the grave, and place over it, to mark the spot, a 
stone prepared for this purpose in Pietermaritzburg. 
Gratefully availing himself of this generous offer, 
William Gates sailed for England on April 2 2d, 
having first seen Mr. Gilchrist leave Pietermaritz- 
burg with two waggons, on his way up country ; 
a sort of departure very different from that which 
either of them had anticipated. The journey 
undertaken by Mr. Gilchrist — under any circum- 
stances a laborious and trying one enough — was 
rendered doubly so by the sad object with which 
he started ; nor did he return till every purpose 
of the journey had been fulfilled. For not only 
did he bring safely to the coast — and subsequently 
to England — the large collections of natural history 
specimens and curiosities, and the notes and journals 
of his travels which Frank Gates had made, as well 
as his two pointers, "Rail" and "Rock," but, in 
spite of the obstacles opposed to his progress at the 
Tati, he even proceeded to the spot where the 
traveller's remains had been laid, and on his way 
back succeeded in obtaining an interview on the 
Ramaqueban River with Dr. Bradshaw, from whom 
