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harder for him. Because of his syllabics, he was
constantly in receipt of notes from the various posts
under him, which were more than once a source of
worry to him, and oppressed him with a still greater
sense of his responsibility. In presence of all the good
accomplished, however, without counting the content-
ment he experienced in the pursuance of his linguistic
studies, he often could not help exclaiming: ‘‘ Heavens!
how happy I am! Surely such delights cannot last
forever. Something is bound to come to mar them.”’
It did indeed come but too soon. Before we under-
take the very much abridged recital of the trials which
were then in store for him, we feel bound to show the
subject of these pages from the double viewpoint of the
explorer and of the writer, without which our exposé
of his personality would be very far from complete.