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76 the recovery of the head of Memnon—a work then progressing in Egypt. Four hundred piastres he desired to be given to Saharti, his faithful servant. One thousand piastres he gave to the poor of Zurich. His library, with the manuscripts in the hands of Sir Joseph Banks, he gave to the University of Cambridge.

After naming some other bequests, he said, mournfully, "I was starting, in two months' time, with the caravan returning from Mecca, and going to Fezzan, thence to Timbuctoo, but it is otherwise disposed." He then requested Mr. Salt to give his love to friends whom he enumerated, and with many of whom he was living on terms of intimacy in Cairo. He next, after a pause and an evident struggle, begged him to let Mr. Hamilton acquaint his mother with his death, and say that his last thoughts had been with her. He then said, "The Turks will take my body; I know it. Perhaps you had better let them."

After this he appeared perfectly calm. Dr. Richardson, and Osman, a faithful attendant, whom he had procured to be released from slavery, sat beside him as he shook hands with Mr. Salt, taking a final leave. Within six hours afterwards he calmly breathed his last.

inhabitants of the Caribbee Islands, as the French possessions in the West Indies are called by the English, still remember with gratitude the name of Gabriel Clieu, a French officer, to whose enterprise and zeal they