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Rh were capable of appreciating disinterested devotion to duty. Had his constitution been less shattered he might have survived the shell-wound could he have undergone amputation, but, in his enfeebled state, the utmost that could be done was to apply the tourniquet to stop the bleeding, and he lingered for two days in the greatest agony. During this time Sir Henry remained quite collected, dictating his final instructions. How thoughtfully he dwelt on every point of importance in reference to the defence of the garrison, and also when speaking of himself, how humbly he talked of his own life and services. He particularly enjoined economy of ammunition and food, and expressed his deep anxiety about the fate of the women and children. "Save the ladies," he often said, and then urged that the following modest epitaph, which his tomb now bears, should be inscribed upon it after his dissolution:

An eye-witness published in the Anglo-Indian Magazine the following affecting account of his last illness:—

"It is impossible to describe the feelings that overcame all on hearing, early in the morning of the 2nd July, and only two days after the commencement of the siege, the sad report, 'Sir Henry is killed !' But he was not dead. A mournful company was soon seen bearing his shattered frame across the open position from the scene of the disaster to Doctor Fayrer's house. The enemy was attacking heavily, yet many braved all, and with horror-struck faces quickly gathered around the couch of their grievously-wounded and beloved Chief, in the open verandah, where he was first laid. It was a terrible wound; the fragment of shell had struck and partly carried away the under portion of the thigh. He was quite sensible to everything around him, and during examination by the medical men,