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memory is doubly dear to me. He was one of 

 the very few who, through evil as well as through 

 good report, disdained to abate an iota of his 

 friendship, and whose regard was never warmer 

 than when all the little world looked its coldest. 

 After long years of service in pestilential Aden, 

 the 6 Coal-hole of the East/ he died suddenly of 

 apoplexy at Berne, when crossing Switzerland 

 to revisit his native land. At that time I was 

 wandering about the Brazil, and I well remem- 

 ber dreaming, on what proved to be the date of 

 his death, that a tooth suddenly fell to the 

 ground, followed by a crash of blood. Such a 

 friend, indeed, becomes part of oneself. I still 

 feel a pang as my hand traces these lines. 



NOTE. 



' The Bashi Bazuks, commanded by General Beatson, were 

 displaying all the violence and rapacity of their class, little, if 

 at all, restrained by the presence of their English officers.' 

 Thus writes Mr John William Kaye in * Our Indian Heroes ' 

 {Good Words, June, 1851), for the greater glorification of a 

 certain General Neill, whose principal act of heroism was to 

 arrest a 1 Jack-in-Office Station Master.' Mr Kaye is essenti- 

 ally an official writer, but even official iuspiration should not 

 be allowed directly to misstate fact. 



