Absence from the city has prevented me from intimating at an earlier date the sudden death of Mr, L. Tucker, the business member of the Pottinger survey party. Mr. Tucker had an attack of illness after arriving here some five or six week ago, but with the aid of medical attention from Dr. Wolfen-dale he was able to go forward when the party continued their journey. Unfortunately the disease broke out again when he had almost reached the Yunnan border, and so ill did he become that he was forced to return, Happily he reached Chungking before the ndcame last Saturday the 25th of February. The passing away was almost tragic in_its suddenness. Ten minutes before he died Mr. Tucker was talking rationally to a member of the community on a variety of subjects, and gave no indication that his condition was soctitical, His death was due to syncope. We buried him lust Monday in the L. M.S, section of our Christian cemetery, religious services being conducted in the house of Mr. Murray, where he died, by Dr. Parry of the I. M,, and at the grave side by the Rev.
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