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and domestic history of the provinces, and by his familiarity with 

 the languages employed in official transactions as well as in com- 

 mon converse. At this time, however, he felt his health again 

 becoming impaired, and applied for the furlough of two years, 

 to which his length of service entitled him. "While negotiating for 

 this, my alarming illness in July of that year, summoned him 

 home without delay. He came off immediately, and arrived in 

 the end of August. I had by that time considerably recovered, 

 and was able to enjoy his society. Three months of the follow- 

 ing winter were closely occupied in the composition of his work, 

 " The Highlands of Central India." On the completion of it, he 

 went to London, to arrange for its publication, and this being 

 put in train, he returned home to enjoy more freely the society 

 of his friends in Glasgow and Aberdeen. He had now resolved 

 to return to India at the end of the first year of his furlough, and 

 being anxious for the issue of his work previous to his departure, 

 he again went to London, to expedite matters. While there, he 

 was seized with a malignant attack of illness, which, in a very 

 few days, had a fatal termination. He died on the 1st of May, 

 1871, in the thirty-third year of his age, and was interred in 

 Kensal Green Cemetery. I shall not dwell on the sad event, 

 neither will I attempt any delineation of his character, lest the 

 warm affection I cherished for him, and the pride I had in my 

 noble boy, should betray me into undue praise of him. His death 

 has been the one deep sorrow of my latter years. 



" Quis desiderio sit pudor, aut modus 

 Tarn cari capitis." 



Sor. ad Virg. 



His book was published a few months after his death. It was 

 a considerable time before I could bring my mind to read a work 

 which had such melancholy associations connected with it. It 

 had run the course of reviewing before I read it, and when I did 

 I was gratified to find that it so well merited the commendations 

 it had received. I was not prepared to give James credit for the 

 talent and ability it displays ; although I still consider that his 

 report on Nimar exhibits higher ability on matters of greater 

 moment, and greatly more difficult to cope with. 



The work has now passed through two editions, and met with 

 high appreciation and large demand in India, and among Anglo- 

 Indian sportsmen ; being essentially a work of Indian sport and 



