Bombay and western India, a series of stray papers; . r(iue and Vasco da Gama to tomb of the former at Goa waslong worshipped by the natives asthat of a man who judged themrighteously. Da Gamas cenotaph atCochin is like the grave of Moses onBlount Xebo. You may seek for itbut will not find it. Jacquemontwas a few years ago, and ahandful of bones and ashes (all thatwas left of him) taken to France; *Cootes body to Hampshire; andLord Mayos to Ireland; Mark Cub-bons from Suez to England ; ClaudeMartins remains were dug up by themutuieers in 1857; Skinner wasbm-ied in the chu
Bombay and western India, a series of stray papers; . r(iue and Vasco da Gama to tomb of the former at Goa waslong worshipped by the natives asthat of a man who judged themrighteously. Da Gamas cenotaph atCochin is like the grave of Moses onBlount Xebo. You may seek for itbut will not find it. Jacquemontwas a few years ago, and ahandful of bones and ashes (all thatwas left of him) taken to France; *Cootes body to Hampshire; andLord Mayos to Ireland; Mark Cub-bons from Suez to England ; ClaudeMartins remains were dug up by themutuieers in 1857; Skinner wasbm-ied in the church he had himselfbuilt ill Dehli; Judson and JohnPeter Grant died at sea; Elgin sleepswell under an oak tree in the cemeteryof Dharnisala, in Kaiigra. A strangerequest was made by the Marquis ofHastings on his death-bed (Malta1827)—that his right Iiaiid should l>ecut off and kept until the death ofthe Marchioness, which was done,when it was put into her coffin andburied with lier. Here we retrograde—it is a step from the cradle to the grave,. BODY OF ST. FKAKCISXAVIEB AT GOA. • Ante, Vol. I., pp. 183, 203. VOL. n. 34G LONGEVITY IN INDIA. and vice versa. There are among the one hundred and thirteennames, fifty-three English, thirty-one Scotch, eleven Irish, sevenFrench, tlnree American, three Portuguese, two Swedish, oneGerman, one Dutcli, and one Spanish. These one hundred andthirteen are a selection, as we said, of the most distinguishedEuropeans in the history of modern India. So much for theirnationality. We now come to another question: Wliat proportion ofmarried men are in this one hundred and thirteen ? Thebachelors are, and have been, a strong force in India. Manyafter having held out have ultimately yielded to the over-whelming fasciaations of the fair sex. Here are several whowere altogether impervious: Amherst, Clyde, Coote, Macaulay,Schwartz, the two Elpliinstones, Jonathan Duncan, Metcalfe,James Eergusson, and Ochterlony. Nobody expects suchwanderers as Wa
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