. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . al forest. Here he was laid. 217 2i8 A BOOK OF LIFE AND DEATH This brave bright one was fortunate in his death: to him came not thatevil fate foreshadowed by himself. Most of us, he wrote, even if byreason of great strength and the dignity of gray hairs we retain some degreeof public respect in the latter days of our existence, will find a falling away offriends and a solitude making itself round us day by day until we are left alonewith the hired sick-nurse. For the attr
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . al forest. Here he was laid. 217 2i8 A BOOK OF LIFE AND DEATH This brave bright one was fortunate in his death: to him came not thatevil fate foreshadowed by himself. Most of us, he wrote, even if byreason of great strength and the dignity of gray hairs we retain some degreeof public respect in the latter days of our existence, will find a falling away offriends and a solitude making itself round us day by day until we are left alonewith the hired sick-nurse. For the attraction of a mans character is apt to beoutlived like the attraction of his body; and the power to love grows feeblein its turn, as well as the power to inspire love in others. It is only with afew rare natures that friendship is added to friendship, love to love, and theman keeps growing richer in affection after his head is white and his backweary, and he prepares to go down into the dust of death. .Authority: A printed letter addressed to friends by Mr. Lloyd Osbourne, stepson ofR. L. Stevenson. Dated December TllK AliDALLA EL TaAISHI AND HIS EMIRS, KILLED AT Um Dkbkkikat on November 24, 1899. l-rom a phott\^aph f>y pi:ymission o/ Sir Rt^s^inald Win^ate. No. loo The Death of the Khalifa, Abdulla el Taashi, the2ist November 1899. T X TAR Office, 30th January 1900. The following despatch has been\ /\ / received . . from Colonel Sir Reginald Wingate, commanding» » troops on the White Nile, to His Excellency Major-General theRt. Hon. Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, Sir, In accordance with your instructions to me to proceed with a flyingcolumn towards Gedid and to deal with the Dervish forces under the EmirAhmed Fedil and the Khalifa Abdulla, which were expected to be in thatneighbourhood, I have the honour to inform you that at 4 on the 21stNovember I left Fachi Shoya with a force of 3,700 men. The troopsbivouacked from 6 to 10 on the 21st Novem
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