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4. But they [the gods] smile, they find a music
centred in a doleful song teaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of
wrong, Ake a tale of little meaning tho' the words are
strong. Tennyson, ' The Lotos- Eaters.'
Dans I'Olympe, ou le cri du monde arrive chant, Ou 1'etourdissement conseille Tincl^mence, On rit.
Victor Hugo, ' La Le'gende des Siecles,' ' Le Titan,' iii.
5. Thy ditties will she freely praise,
And pay thy pains with courtly phrase ; In a rough path will oft command- Accept at least thy friendly hand ; I His she avoids, or, urged and prayed, Unwilling takes his proffered aid, While conscious passion plainly speaks In downcast look and blushing cheeks. Scott, ' Rokeby,' canto ii. stanza xxx. The girl
Seemed kinder unto Philip than to him ; But she loved Enoch.
Tennyson, 'Enoch Arden.'
Compare also Fadette and the "bessons," Landry and Sylvinet :
" Elle etait sans gene avec lui [Sylvinet], et quel- qu'un qui ne s'y connaitrait pas aurait juge" que c'etait celui des bessons qu'elle preferait." George Sand, ' La Petite Fadette,' chap. xi.
6. " De temps en temps une note triste passe et roule dans le ciel comme un ronflement de conque marine. C'est le butor qui plonge au fond de 1'eau son bee immense d'oiseau-pecheur et souffle." Alphonse Daudet, 'Lettres de mon Moulin,' 'En Camargue.'
Does not this remind us of Scott's beauti- ful lines in ' The Lady of the Lake,' canto i. stanza xxxi. (Ellen's Song) 1
Yet the lark's shrill fife may come At the daybreak from the fallow, And the bittern sound his drum, Booming from the sedgy shallow.
JONATHAN BOUCHIER. Ropley, Alresford, Hants.
INSCRIPTIONS IN THE MILITARY CEMETERY
OF EVE LEARY, BRITISH GUIANA. During
the first half of the present century British
Guiana was garrisoned by British troops.
Detachments were stationed at Georgetown,
New Amsterdam, Fort Wellington, and Aber-
deen in Essequibo. After the abolition of
slavery in 1838 all the detachments were
Avithdrawn, except the one at Eve Leary
barracks in Georgetown. The mortality
amongst these troops, crowded together in
insanitary quarters, was very great, until a
peculiarly fatal outbreak of yellow fever in
1856 compelled the War Office to withdraw
all white troops from the colony, which was
afterwards garrisoned by West Indian
regiments.
There are several soldiers' burial-grounds
dotted about the colony, but neglect and
climatic influences have almost obliterated
all mementoes of the dead. The old military
cemetery at Eve Leary had long been
abandoned and its site almost forgotten,
until it was discovered by Mr. Kirke, Sheriff
of Demerara, who represented its shameful
condition to Lord Gormanston, Governor of
the colony, himself an old soldier, who at
once ordered it to be enclosed with a decent
paling, and placed it in charge of the
Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens, who
levelled the ground and planted it with
ornamental trees and shrubs.
Most of the graves are undistinguished by any tablet or headstone. These, being mostly made of wood, have long ago succumbed to the damp tropical heat and the attacks of ants, or have been carried away for firewood.
The following inscriptions are the decipher- able ones left, and as they will soon disappear it is as well that they should be enshrined in
- N. &Q.'
The officers had a separate burial-place, which has been kept in better order.
L* Colonel
ALEXR MILNE
XIX Regiment
Died 5 th Nov r 1827
Aged 46 years
Sacred To the Memory
of
THUS. MOFFEE
Serg* 49 th Regiment
Who departed this life
On the 9 th of April 1859
Aged 32 years
Requies Cat + in pace
Who is sincerely regretted by the
Non-Comd. Officers and Pts
of the Reg*
I.H.S.
Sacred to the Memory of
P k I. HUGHES
Late of the XIX Reg*
Who departed this life
On the 10 th of Augst 1846
Aged 27 years This board was erected by his
Affectionate Comrades as a token of respect to his memory.
I.H.S.
Sacred
To the Memory of
ANASTASIE BUCKLEY
Who departed this life on
the 17 th of July 1844
Aged 40 Years
She was lamented by all that Knew her, she was charitable And a mother to the motherless,