END OF DIARY.
The sad task now remains of recording the death of the writer, which took place at Meean Meer on the 23rd of August, 1861, under the circumstances mentioned in the following extract from the Lahore Chronicle:—
"It is with deep grief that we announce the death last night from cholera of that admirable officer and most excellent man, Augustus Henry Irby, Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding the 51st King's Own Light Infantry. In him the public service and society have lost one of its most honourable members, and the officers and men whom he commanded one they esteemed as a warm-hearted comrade and true friend. In all relations of life, Colonel Irby had won the esteem of those with whom he had connection. He knew his duty thoroughly and did it; when his regiment moved out of the cantonments to escape, if possible, from the pestilence which has struck down more than one hundred and twenty of them, he remained with the sick, caught the contagion, and died at his post."
HENRY W. STACY, PRINTER, HAYMARKET, NORWICH.
Transcriber's notes:
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suggestion; so, leaving a man to help then on, I continued
suggestion; so, leaving a man to help them on, I continued
descended to the bed of the ravine, The Bruin family,
descended to the bed of the ravine. The Bruin family,
established, "nous avons changè toute cela." It is not
established, "nous avons changé toute cela." It is not