h the grog-carts,
fell into the hands of the Chinese. On the next morning they
were brought before the authorities and commanded to perform
the _Ko tou_. The Seiks obeyed; but Moyse, the English soldier,
declaring that he would not prostrate himself before any Chinaman
alive, was immediately knocked upon the head and his body thrown
upon a dunghill.'--Quoted by the author from _The Times_. The
Elgin of line 6 is Henry Bruce, eighth Lord Elgin (1811-1863),
then Ambassador to China, and afterwards Governor-General of
India. Compare _Theology in Extremis_ (_post_, p. 309). Of the
second, which Mr. Saintsbury describes 'as one of the most lofty,
insolent, and passionate things concerning this matter that our
time has produced,' Sir Francis notes that the incident--no doubt
a part of the conquest of Sindh--was told him by Sir Charles
Napier, and that 'Truckee' (line 12) = 'a stronghold in the
Desert, supposed to be unassailable and impregnable.'

XCVIII, XCIX

By permission of Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. _Dramatic Lyrics_,
1845; _Cornhill Magazine_, June 1871, and _Pacchiarotto_, 1876,
Works, iv. and xiv. I can find nothing about Herve Riel.

C-CIII

The two first are from the 'Song of Myself,' _Leaves of Grass_
(1855); the others from _Drum Taps_ (1865). See _Leaves of Grass_
(Philadelphia, 1884), pp. 60, 62-63, 222, and 246.

CIV, CV

By permission of Messrs. Macmillan. Dated severally 1857 and 1859.

CVI

_Edinburgh Courant_, 1852. Compare _The Loss of the 'Birkenhead'_
in _The Return of the Guards, and other Poems_ (Macmillan, 1883),
pp. 256-58. Of the troopship _Birkenhead_ I note that she sailed
from Queenstown on the 7th January 1852, with close on seven
hundred souls on board; that the most of these were soldiers--of
the Twelfth Lancers, the Sixtieth Rifles, the Second, Sixth,
Forty-third, Forty-fifth, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and
Ninety-first Regiments; that she struck on a rock (26th February
1852) off Simon's Bay, South Africa; that the boats would hold
no more than a hundred and thirty-eight, and that, the women
and children being safe, the men that were left--four hundred
and fifty-four, all told--were formed on deck by their officers,
and went down with the ship, true to colours and discipline till
the end.

CVII-CIX

By permission of Messrs. Macmillan. From _Empedocles on Etna_
(1853). As regards the second number, it may be noted that Sohrab,
being in quest of his father Rus