Two days previously he was exposed in the saddle, for several hours, to cold and snow, and contracted acute laryngitis for which he was ineffectually treated in the primitive manner of the period.

A short time before ceasing to breathe, he said: "I die hard; but I am not afraid to go.

I believed from my first attack that I should not survive it.

My breath cannot last long." A little later he murmured: "I feel myself going.

I thank you for your attentions; but I pray you to take no more trouble about me.