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Rh on he became enfeebled and indisposed. About the 1st of August he consulted Dr. Murray, one of the ablest physicians in northern India, who found him to be affected by a low fever, without any marked symptom, and without any specific ailment or other complication. As he did not improve under treatment, he was advised by Murray to proceed immediately to the Himálaya, as the only means of shaking off the febrile affection; and as the time went on still without improvement, this advice was repeated with increasing urgency. He replied that his work rendered this inconvenient for the present, that he had arranged to visit the Himálaya late in September and that he did not wish to leave his headquarters sooner, unless Murray could say that there was immediate danger to his health. As this could not exactly be said, he deferred his departure for a while and adhered to his arrangements. Had he followed the medical advice, there would have been a chance for the prolongation of his life. But he worked on during the heat at Agra, and early in September he decided to visit his daughter Maynie, at Bareilly, where her husband, Dr. Hay, was Civil Surgeon, taking that station on his way to the Himálaya. As yet no alarm was felt either by himself or his family circle, consisting of his son James,