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itself to strangers. " There was something singularly 

 winning about him," wrote a friend, upon his death ; 

 "that peculiar combination of courage and gentle- 

 ness, which is one of the finest traits of character." 

 It was, in fact, this very association of a genial 

 nature with a remarkable openness and candour 

 of disposition, that won for him friends, especially 

 amongst his own countrymen, wherever his lot was 

 cast, and so smoothed his way over many difficulties. 

 And if, as would sometimes happen, he fell amongst 

 unfriendly natives, he preserved himself on such 

 occasions by a seeming show of condescension, and 

 a coolness under danger which commanded their 

 respect. A faithful and accurate observer, but little 

 was lost that came under his notice ; and if at the 

 time of his death — in February 1875 — he had not 

 realized all that he had hoped from his expedition, it 

 may at least be said that he had justified the choice 

 which he had made, and had contributed a measure 

 of faithful labour to the causes of progress and 

 research. 



On hearing of his death, the Dean of Christ 

 Church, who had always particularly regretted the 

 illness which in earlier life had prematurely closed 

 his University career, wrote of the untimely termina- 

 tion of his later efforts in a spirit of no less concern. 

 " His name," wrote the Dean at this time, " must be 

 added to the list of those devoted and enterprising 



