Obituary Notices. 
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west, and so on), an accident possibly due to the fact that on 
Chinese maps tbe names are written perpendicularly instead of 
horizontally. And, in conclusion, as the positions thus falsified in 
the map agreed with those given to the places in the narratives in 
question, the latter were evidently fictitious, and but too clearly 
from the pen of the able geographer who was probably the only 
person capable of having concocted them ! 
The errors, honest enough as far as the map was concerned, 
affected our own atlases during many years.* 
The introduction by Colonel Yule to Captain Gill’s River of 
Golden Sand f brings a mass of lucid research to bear on the vast 
river system which, originating on the plateaux of Eastern Tibet, 
sends its streams either eastward through China, or south, in long 
parallel courses, to the Indian Ocean. The whole question, of great 
difficulty owing to the inaccessible and little known character of 
the region, had occupied his mind for many years ; the distinguished 
French explorer of the Mekong, Francis Gamier, being one of his 
many sympathetic correspondents. 
After his wife’s death, in 1875, Colonel Yule returned to 
England, where he was very warmly welcomed, and was at once 
placed on the Indian Council. Although not many years after this 
he was attacked by the wasting disease to which he eventually 
succumbed, we find but little diminution, up to the last, in his 
recorded work, while the amount of unrecorded work, friendly help 
given, often under the heavy pressure of physical prostration, to 
the literary labours of others, was very great ; his keen appreciation, 
in fact, of such labour attracted his sympathy irresistibly to the 
workers themselves. And his interest in all else that life had to 
offer — in art, in politics, in discovery, in social and philanthropic 
movements, in the welfare of his friends — continued to the last 
unabated. 
His second marriage, in 1877 — to Mary Wilhelmina, daughter 
of Mr Fulwar Skip with, late of the Bengal C.S. — brought into his 
life an episode of hardly four years’ domestic happiness, unclouded, 
save by the anxiety caused by his wife’s delicate health ; and he lost 
* See Journal of the Royal Geographical Society for 1872, vol. xliv., and 
Introduction to Wood’s Journey to the Source of the River Oxus, new 
edition, 1872. Murray. f Murray. 
