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“ bedded, mostly massive white dolomitic limestone, and this was overlain by bluish shales 
“ and well bedded limestone, extending from about six miles south of Bursi to the camp. 1 
“ must have a ramble in these limestones to-morrow ; they seem to be triassic, compact with 
“ layers full of small Cfastcropods, among which I recognised a Nerinea. The so-called 
“ Karakorum stones, i.e., corals, occur in dark shales below the limestones, which are topped 
“ by a yellowish brown well-bedded limestone of ? age ; the whole series dips to south-east 
“ at a moderate angle.” 
Here the diary terminates, for although on the following day a march forward was 
accomplished, by the evening of that day the power to record the observations was at an end, 
and we must look to others to furnish the details of what took place during the few hours 
which remained of Dr. Stoliczka’s life and labours on earth. 
Towards the end of June a short note from Mr. Allan Hume conveyed to us in Calcutta the 
sad news, which had been sent by telegraph to the Foreign Office at Simla, that Dr. Stoliczka 
was dead. En due course the post brought an official announcement from Colonel Gordon, 
addressed to Mr. H. B. Medlicott, who was at that time Acting Superintendent of the 
Geological Survey of India. 
Colonel Gordon describes in this letter, in sympathetic language, the circumstances attending 
the death, but the facts are given somewhat more in detail by Captain Trotter, who wrote to 
Captain Chapman on the same date (19tli June), for the information of the advance party 
under Mr. Forsyth. 
This letter bears testimony to the kindness with which those who were present attended 
Stoliczka in his last moments. For the writer, Captain Trotter, Stoliczka had expressed the 
greatest regard in some of the letters which he had written to his friends in India, and 
that the esteem was heartily reciprocated is fully apparent in the lines which follow : 
“ My Dear Chapman, Camp Murghi, June 19, 1874. 
“ Col. Gordon is writing to Mr. Forsyth the melancholy intelligence about poor 
“ Stoliczka, but you may all of you like to hear more details about his last illness titan the 
“ Colonel will have time to write. 
“ On the 16th, the day we crossed the Karakorum, he complained of head-ache, the pain 
“ being at the back of his head, but as he had suffered from head-ache more or less on every 
“ occasion of going up to a great height, I did not think anything of the circumstance nor 
“ of its continuation. 
“ On the 17th we crossed the Dipsang plains, and were still, as you know, on very high 
“ ground. 
“ On the 18tli (yesterday) he started on horseback early in the morning to examine some 
“ rocks up the stream which joins the main river at Burchae, and joined us at breakfast 
“ halfway between Burchae and this. He was then looking fagged and complained of his 
“ head on arrival here. About noon he lay down, and very shortly commenced to breath 
“ very heavily and coughed a good deal and spat ; his head and hands were very hot, and his 
“ pulse beat very rapidly and strongly. He complained much of pain in his neck and the 
“ back of his bead, and on my advice he put on two mustard plasters, one on his neck and 
“ the other on his chest. They did not, however, appear to give much relief. In the even- 
“ ing the cough was very bad, and the native doctor made up some mixture to relieve the 
“ irritation which caused the cough, which, however, continued all night. 
“ In the morning the cough was much subdued, but he appeared much exhausted and 
“ scarcely conscious. From the previous evening he had spoken nothing but an occasional 
