830 TRIBUTES TO IIIs MIEMORY. of his eventful and instructive life in our next. Meanwhile the following incidents in the last homents of his life will be read with profound interest and great profit. When the fatal disease with which Sir Gooroo Dass was attacked, took a scrious turn, he realised that his cnd was near and signified his wish to be taken to his house on the banks of the Ganges. It was during this period, he called his four sons and told them in the minutest details all that should be done from the moment he would die till the performance of his Sradh ceremony. He gave up taking any food for five or six days before his death and lived upon drops of the sacred water of the Ganges. A few hours before his death he asked his eldest son to read a chapter from the Bhagabat Gita, the constant companion and solace of his life. When it was finished he suddenly said “Cover up my eyes.” The attendants thought that the gas light might have hurt his eyes and they therefore put it out. But he insisted on having his eyes covered up. When the attendants covered his eyes, he said thrice in a loud voice. “This is the last-Ei Shesh' and then chanted the holy Gayatri Mantras. They were his last words and the great soul passed away. Mr. W. C. Wordsworth wrote thc following letter to Sir Gooroo Dass on the 28th November:- Senate House. The 28th Nov. 18. "Dear Sir Gooroodas-It is with deep regret that we have received the news of your illness. The Syndicate have requested me who am in the Chair to-day
