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Rh shall be private. Then he causes Hay to read the Order in the Prayer Book for the Visitation of the Sick. After the articles of faith, as therein prescribed, have been rehearsed, he answers 'All this I steadfastly believe,' in a voice so clear and decided that it can be heard outside his room. These are the last words that he utters, in the early hours after midnight. He has full possession of his faculties, and seems to be free from distress. His eyes glance to notice everything around, while Hay keeps a solitary vigil by the bed-side. Soon the pains of death begin to get hold upon him. He is athirst, and half-articulately asks, or rather makes signs, for water. He breathes laboriously, the respirations are more and more lengthened till they are like long-drawn sighs. Near dawn they subside, growing gentler and gentler, so that Hay can scarcely distinguish the moment when they cease, as the spirit passes.

In India, at this season, burial takes place soon after death; this is the morning of Tuesday (27th September), and the funeral is fixed for the evening of the following day (28th) with the simplicity befitting the man, but with a long line of mourners, and troops of sorrowing friends. From the house the coffin is conveyed in a hearse drawn by artillery horses to the Church. It is set there, while the Chaplain (from a neighbouring station) reads the Burial Service; the pall-bearers being four Civil Servants on the one side, and four Military Officers on the other. Thence six Native