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cl Calcutta. If you are not, stay where you are, and I will nominate another; but I should be sorry to lose you. "Yours affectionately, "." On the receipt of this letter George Bogle proceeded to Calcutta without delay, to enter upon his new duties. There he was attacked by a fatal illness, and died on the 3rd of April, 1781, at the early age of thirty-four.

The character of George Bogle is shown by the facts of his life here briefly stated, by his letters, and by the journal and other documents relating to the Tibet mission. His selection to fill post after post of responsibility and difficulty, by so sagacious an administrator as Warren Hastings, is a sufficient proof that Bogle was an able, zealous, and hard-working public servant. His letters show that he was an affectionate, warm-hearted, and generous man; and his journal in Tibet is that of a singularly calm and cautious diplomatist, possessed of an inexhaustible fund of patience and good humour. The friendship he formed for the Teshu Lama and his family, which was evidently much more than a mere passing feeling, is an interesting trait in his character. Robert Bogle eventually succeeded his father at Daldowie, but all the brothers and sisters died unmarried except the eldest, Martha, who married Mr. Thomas Brown of Langside.