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same time with such unselfishness and goodness as charmed anyone who 
approached him. 
“ Geographical science lost in him one of its best workers, his nearest 
and his friends true support in their hard moments of life. 
“ Coming myself not from a cold-blooded origin, I have no shame when 
in writing this my eyes are full of tears, and his country can remember 
that there rarely lived a greater gentleman.” 
