xxxix. 
I well remember an old stalker's astonishment when, after getting^ 
up to within some 90 yards of his first stag, which was lying down, 
instead of waiting till it rose, he jumped on the flat surface of a rock, 
gave a loud whistle, and as the beast bolted away dropped him on 
his tracks with a shot through the heart. " Well," said the old man, 
" I never saw the like o' that." 
He never appeared to suffer from severe exertion and fatigue till 
the autumn of 1887, when, from constant exposure in bad weather he 
got a violent chill, and from that date, although at times appearing to 
get fairly well he never recovered his health, and early in the present 
year after a sharp attack of influenza, which produced great exhaus- 
tion, he suddenly passed away on the night of the 20th of January, 
1892. 
Edward Hamflton. 
Dates of Gen. Douglas Hamilton's commissions (from the 
Quarterly Indian Army List of 1891) : — 
Douglas Hamilton, M.L 
Ensign ist January, 1874 (evidently a misprint for 1834 
the year he went to Addiscombe). 
Lieutenant 1 2th June, J 837, the year he arrived in Madras. 
Captain 31st January, 183S. 
Major 2nd March, 1847. 
Lieut.-Col. 29th June, 1853. 
Colonel 1st January, 1862. 
Major-Gen, ist January, 1867, 
Lieut.-Gen. 1st October, 1S77. 
General ist December, 1888. 
